Quotes About Empathy

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.

When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.

If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

We know that there is a connection between our feelings and our brain.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?

We knew that for E.T. to feel real, you had to have some connection to his eyes.

I'm trying to make connections. That's all we do as human beings on the planet, isn't it? We try to connect.

Life is about connections, and some people have better chemistry with others. That don't make you bad people.

I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like.

What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

Wanting to be loved and appreciated connects us all.

The way Salman connects with his audience, I love it! I am trying to learn that from him.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

Laughter is what connects pretty much all pain.

Love is an emotion that everyone connects with.

It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.

I love Bon Iver. I would never put a negative connotation on that man's name!

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.