Quotes About Emotion

With a lot of these social realist films, the first thing you do is drain the color.

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love.

The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Not playing guitar has been the hardest thing about having ALS.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

Love is a universal, attractive element. And other than death, love is the one thing that binds all of humanity.

It is love that heals and music is the one thing that speaks to all our souls.

Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.