Quotes About Emotion

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

I do tend to fall to the dark side of things visually sometimes.

We don't tend to break into song when we go to war.

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.