Quotes About Emotion

I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storytelling. Incredible actors, story lines that weren't easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.

I love storytelling.

The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.

To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Audiences still crave storytelling.

I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.

Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what America's 'first use' nuclear policy is, or why starting a trade war would be a disaster. But he does understand storytelling, the power of a clear narrative, and the importance of stirring emotion.

Storytelling is my true passion.

Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all stories of our own narrative.

I do love storytelling.

I don't consider what I do 'art.' It's 'storytelling.'

The great thing about country songs is the storytelling.

'Fahrenheit' was a very difficult product to sell to publishers initially because no-one believed in storytelling or emotion.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

Storytelling was always a passion for me.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.

I have a special place in my heart for the Straight Edge Society. Never reached its full potential.

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.