Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I try to keep very simple ideas and keep them as emotionally powerful as possible.

You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of the story and the heart and the drive of the characters.

What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.

siamo due liuti di cui l'uno ripete spontaneo e un po' confusamente i suoni toccati sulle corde dell'altro. Egli

for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.

The song is ended,But the melody lingers on.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

A song says something to us that we can't hear in any other way. There is a kind of magic to it. Music does not simply soothe the savage breast, it reaches to our better nature, wouldn't we all agree?

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.

I've learned over the years that sooner or later a person's physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart.

Remember, people don't buy from you because they understand what you sell—they buy from you because they feel understood.

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

Like most clichés, it is fundamentally true that the anxious, the melancholy, the manic, and the obsessed are more likely to become therapists than other people.

Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you.

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

Beginning with a genuine sense of care and interest by the focus of the other's careful attention, resonance extends this positive interaction into a fuller dimension of the other being changed because of who we are. This is how we feel "felt," and this is how two individuals become a "we.

On the subjective side of reality, resonance can be detected internally as we look to the other and recognize evidence that the other is changed because of our own internal world. We see a tear forming at the edge of the other's eyes as we have just told a sad story. We

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.