Quotes About Emotion

Beauty is very intimate.

What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and you hear every lyric, and you hear every detail.

You never get to see the intimate side of a football player.

Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

The first album is an introduction, and when people listen to it top to bottom, I want them to know me.

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

Color is so intuitive.

When you look into someone's eyes, it may be like your connection to self. Two intuitive people, at the right moment, at the right time, could know they're in love at that moment.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.

From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

I emotionally invest myself in every song!

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

People love storylines. They love them because at some point, the talent will get people emotionally invested.