Quotes About Emotion

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.

This is going to seem odd, but I love Eminem because he has so much conviction and emotion in the way he raps. Every word that he raps, you feel it.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.

What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

It's interesting the whole Kardashian thing with 'Offspring' because really my choices - with my costume designer - for every single episode are based on the emotional journey of that episode for the character.

In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Despair often breeds disease.

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

Oh! blame not the bard.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

I know when I'm around someone I love, I turn into a complete... Oh my God, I'm going to say it... a melt!

I don't want to sing, you know: 'oh yeah, I love you baby, you love me too.'

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.