Quotes About Emotion

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

The best moments in comics come from a primal image that captures the emotion and the conflict. What you add are the pieces that get you to the point and what happens next.

The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.

Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.

There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

'Kanche' is not primarily a war film: it is a lovely story set against a war backdrop.

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Heavy metal is always going to be there. At its core, it's all about a primitive connection we all need to keep in our lives.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Music is always my first priority.

It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.