Quotes About Emotion

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?

The words you speak reveal the heart you have.

Some will make you Dance, some will make you Smile, and some will make your misery longer than a mile! Pleasure or Pain, the Choice is thine.

The sacred words penetrate the heart.

Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?

There is no apology for passion

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

You call that a kiss?

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.