Quotes About Emotion

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.

I can't shout, I can't cry convincingly, and please don't make me dance.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

I hate plots.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that simple.

To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.