Quotes About Empathy

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

I want to reach everyone, but I have a dedication to women. Being that I'm a woman myself, and with the things that I've gone through, I've dealt with a lot of women that are in the dark and blind about relationships who depend on men for their happiness, emotionally and financially.

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

When one of your best mates finds out he has cancer and he is going through what he has to go through it's tough.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

I think there's a very fine line on guys saying stuff because you don't want to be disrespectful. That's not the point of it. But you also do need to - there's nothing wrong with saying what's on your mind.

It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.

I am not going to point fingers at anyone and dissect why their shows didn't work.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

You can't put out fire with fire.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

The best way to fire somebody is to compassionately fire them.

Nobody should get fired because of who they are, or who they love.

I'm such a firm believer that everyone should see themselves in a character, and everyone should feel represented.

I'm a firm believer in not leaving people out to dry.