Quotes about Emotional Resonance

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music, I think about gold, blood rushing... I like to keep it really warm and glittery.

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when I was 11, I related emotionally to being left and thrown in a trash can on the side of the road. Her damage - I got it. I didn't understand Han Solo at all.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

La tristeza es algo constante. Las canciones se dedican a tapar la tristeza igual que el ruido tapa el silencio. Así que cuando las canciones se acaban, vuelve la tristeza.

Studies have shown that convincing religious agents (have) to have just the right level of outlandishness. Also, the manifestation need(s) to have an emotional resonance in order for belief to set in. Religions use elaborate rituals to stir up people's emotions....

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

Like, music and songs, what we do, we can capture history as artists, so that's what I really try to do.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

The arts are a celebration of life.

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.

You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.

I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.

I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera' when I was 19, and I still think about the characters.

I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.