Quotes About Emotion

I think it's very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page - that's incredibly easy - but it's far harder to make a reader care about a character.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent.

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?

Number one, as an audience member, I tend to like violent movies and TV shows because it's not real.

It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.

In my case, I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

The violin sings.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.