Quotes About Emotion

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

What genres are good for is being like, 'Here are the parameters. Here's something about the way it's going to make you feel. And here's something about the subject matter.'

Music is very subjective. You may or may not like a song, but folk and regional language have a connectivity that binds different people together, who slowly begin to relate to it.

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

I work from a subjective palette.

What music can do so well is tell the truth in a subjective way.

Love is very subjective.

I can't really iterate what I look for in a script. It's a very subjective thing. Like an organic attachment you have with the script and characters.

You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know?

The scientific method is about trying to remove our own bias and subjectivity, and be as objective as possible. But then you can put it back into context and you're allowed to be emotional and human about the way you engage with it.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.

A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.

I do like to write about dark subjects.