“I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.” StillsWantedFilmEmotionalAbstract Author:George Lucas
“I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.” GivingFilmEmotionalGoes OnAmountKicksPantsLimitlessGreat Music Author:Woody Allen
“Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.” ThinkingFactsMightFilmUsedFightingFeltChallengesWalksMoralJourneyEmotionalWalkingUsed To BeCinemaRobotsEvaluateWalking Out Author:Simon Pegg
“I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.” IfsThinkingFilmEffectsEmotionalMessagesVisceral Author:Aunjanue Ellis
“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.” PeopleIfsFilmEmotionalPerfectionMiracleTechniqueAweAgain And AgainGreat FilmEmotional Life Author:Ali MacGraw
“I wanted to make a film that wasn't just a biography. When you watched it, you actually felt that you watched a movie, that you had an emotional reaction. In order to do that, I felt that I had to really keep myself emotionally raw while working on the film. I had to feel myself crying, so the audience could be moved, too.” FeelsWantedFilmOrderFeltAudienceCryEmotionalMovedReactionsBiographiesEmotional Reactions Author:Tamra Davis
“My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.” WritingDreamFilmSportsCan DoEmotionalProjectsYou Can Do ItBeing Me Author:Jeff Cardoni
“Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.” PeopleIfsCareFilmEmotionalDegreesMusic IsBirdGood ThingsTrackViewersBrad Author:Michael Giacchino
“I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.” ThinkingKindBookFilmEmotionComedyFrontsEmotional Author:Salman Rushdie
“The core of the film is usually something very emotional and something that feels really real that you can relate to, it's not like done in a false way. You know a lot of films will treat emotion falsely and you can sense that very quickly.” KnowsWayFeelsRealDoneFilmEmotionEmotionalTreatsCoreRelate Author:Michael Giacchino
“If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.” IfsHappensAbleFilmDifficultAudienceCryEmotionalPortionsGet RealScreeningClockwork Author:Michael Pitt
“When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.” WayArtCharacterFilmOpportunityBitsFantasySawsEmotionalHorrorDifficultyDareScreamPopeSurrealHorror Film Author:Nicolas Cage
“At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.” IfsTwoEndsCharacterStoriesFilmStuffMillionsPsychologyFourEmotionalMonthsTrainingTreatsIndependentDollarsTreatedVersionsThe End Of The DayMillion DollarsIndependent FilmEmotional Life Author:Colin Farrell
“I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.” PeopleThinkingFilmDarkEmotionalHeavyHairstylesDeep Dark Author:Hugh Grant
“A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process.” ThinkingFilmProcessEmotional Author:Lucrecia Martel
“The woman is skin covered prozac I like to call her. Half the trick to a film like this is keeping a sort of emotional level going and keeping an attitude that induces creativity on the set. You have to be in a good mood for that. You have to be happy to make a comedy I think and Anne sort of ensured that every time by expressing most of her feelings through the exciting medium of dance.” ThinkingFeelingsFilmLevelsHalfAttitudeCreativityComedyEmotionalSkinsExcitingMoodTricksMediumsCoveredProzacGood Mood Author:Ryan Reynolds
“The message is one of the beautiful things about the film. And I think part of the appeal is simply that they are prehistoric creatures, they are no longer around and that makes them magical and makes us feel quite emotional, because we know that those creatures did not survive in the long run, so there's poignancy in their fight for survival.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsLongRunningBeautifulFilmFightingEmotionalCreaturesMessagesSurvivalAppealsLong RunsBeautiful ThingsPrehistoricPoignancy Author:John Leguizamo
“From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.” IfsWritingSelfStoriesLightWould BeWantedFilmStrongTalkingStageEmotionalBehaviorImpactMusicalLove StorySensualDimensionsAddressesDestructiveAdolescenceSelf DestructiveUnrestSelf Destructive BehaviorStrong EmotionalDestructive Behavior Author:Alante Kavaite
“At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.” ShouldHeartEndsStoriesAbleFilmPowerfulAttentionAudienceSuccessfulMiddleEmotionalIntellectualNarrativeDramaticCaptureViewersArcsProtagonistsBeginning Middle And End Author:Julia Bacha
“I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.” NeedsFilmLiteratureLeftSidesBrainToo MuchEmotionalExerciseResponseStorytellingThings I LoveEmotional ResponseLove LiteratureLeft Brain Author:Felicity Jones
“You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.” WayNeedsFilmEmotionalPerformancesCastsCrewGood WayUps & DownsEnabling Author:Nicholas Sparks
“For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that we can be emotional and have these emotional lives. I think it would be great to do a film where we see some females and what's going on there when we're not around.” ThinkingShowsWould BeFilmGuyEmotionalFemaleEmotional Life Author:David Ayer
“No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.” HeartTwoMatterTogetherFilmFoundEmotionalPerformancesExcitingVisualsShoreGreat Performance Author:Peter Jackson
“The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.” ThinkingBelieveEndsFactsFeelingsFilmPurposeI BelieveSpaceEmotionAudienceEmotionalOppositesRemoveAccentuate Author:Asghar Farhadi
“Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.” PeopleBelieveMomentsPainFilmArtistLostJourneyEmotionalSittingBelieve In YouAtticsArsesTinkerbell Author:Julian Fellowes
“I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get those meaty roles that push you into the extremities of that psychology. I like doing independent films because there's more room for you to be creative, and the director allowed me to just go wherever I needed to go. It was emotional. I had to cry a lot.” WantFilmRoomsBrainRolesCreativePsychologyToo MuchCryEmotionalNeededDirectorsIndependentActressesBe CreativeIndependent FilmExtremity Author:Tinsel Korey
“I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.” EndsFeelingsWantedLastsFilmParentInterestingHalfAudienceMiddleEmotionalSceneRealizationSplitsPeersInvitedOther HalfCatharsisAdamant Author:David Schwimmer
“Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsImportantStoriesFilmLaughingMissingCryEmotionalImpactIngredientsLevity Author:Cary Fukunaga
“When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.” PeopleStillsFilmMovingNationsProcessActingStageEmotionalKingsSceneOriginalsCriminalsBridgesFeaturesDimensionsSundaySignificanceFilmmakingBloodyDrsReactingHumbling Author:David Oyelowo
“'Son of Saul' film is extremely emotional; you're watching people walk in, you're watching people die. It centers around a child that goes into the ovens but survives the gassing.” PeopleChildrenFilmDiesWalksEmotionalSonOvens Author:Bun B
“A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character.” CharacterFilmGamesAbilityLevelsRoomsDealsEmotionalFootballSeasonsWeatherInjuryWillingnessSchemesRepetitionUps & DownsHigh LevelOffseason Author:Brendan Daly
“I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.” KindFilmPrinciplesStudyEmotionalObjectivesSentimentalSubterfuge Author:Louis Garrel
“What I like about The Meddler style of movie is that it's a fairly lighthearted romantic comedy, but there are hidden moments where something happens that's unexpected, that hopefully have some kind of emotional resonance that you didn't see coming. I love when a film does that.” KindDoeMomentsHappensFilmComedyStyleEmotionalThings HappenHopefullyUnexpectedResonance Author:Susan Sarandon
“Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)” WorldWayLooksKindMeanSelfMomentsSeemsFilmDoubtSawsEmotionalPerspectiveProudFilledPhotographNarrativeThat MomentShiftingSelf-doubt Author:Anton Yelchin
“Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.” FilmCoursesEmotionalEasier Author:Gena Rowlands
“Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.” HeartSometimesActionFilmCausesTelevisionEmotionalInspireFilm And Television Author:Lee Hirsch
“I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.” MenFilmYoungPowerfulQualityEmotionalAnd LoveVulnerableYoung ManWowLove Each OtherStand By Me Author:Ellen Page
“I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.” MenWantSometimesFilmEmotionalUniqueArmySurpriseToneCaptureSwiss Author:Paul Dano
“It's really good to talk about it [ hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts], and it's very gratifying when people ask us about the other aspects of the film [Swiss Army Man], but [those things] are part of the movie and they're important and hilarious, a very fun part of the movie, so there's no sense from us of not wanting to talk about that. I think it's exciting that those things exist in a film that is also very heartfelt and emotional and profound.” PeopleThinkingMenImportantFilmAsksFunEmotionalAspectExcitingArmyProfoundHeartfeltSwissProsthetics Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.” CharacterFilmWonderfulEmotionalScoreIcing Author:Taylor Hackford
“The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.” PeopleIfsStillsActionWantedBeautifulFilmFormCertainEmotionalLimitsExpectationsExperimentsNarrativeRemoveSurrealism Author:Jim Jarmusch
“'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there was also a new audience that weren't empathetic or sympathetic to the people we were portraying. They would never watch a film about inner city families, but they watched 'Hoop Dreams.'” PeopleLongImportantDifferentDreamFilmHoursPowerfulAudienceStruggleEmotionalSceneFilmmakingSympatheticEmpatheticOutreach Author:Gordon Quinn
“I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain ways, or use film as a way to examine, at that time, my own heterosexual experience. Lives of Performers was the beginning of that kind of investigation. But also, the film was influenced by the aesthetics and structures of experimental film as that was taking place at the same time. Hollis Frampton was a big influence on me at that time.” KindFilmFeminismInfluenceEmotional Author:Yvonne Rainer
“In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional and it's physical. We're let in very close. So I think a good horror film has to pull you in very deeply inside. Halloween is a good horror film because we love Jamie Lee Curtis, we're brought very deeply in right when she's babysitting the kids. She's going from house to house, all those houses have windows that you can look in. We're a very vulnerable and exposed audience.” ThinkingKidsFilmHouseAudienceViolenceEmotionalHorrorWindowShiningVulnerableIntimacyHalloweenVery DeepHorror FilmNicholsonShelleyBabysitting Author:Kimberly Peirce
“When you have people who are embarrassing themselves for a living, who are making themselves look foolish and vulnerable and emotional for a living, your day-to-day reality is going to be a high-wire act. People are going to get in fights. People are going to get upset. People are going to walk off set. People are going to call each other names. It happens on every film that has any emotional people.” PeopleRealityFilmFightingEmotionalFoolishVulnerableUpsetEmbarrassing Author:Paul Schrader
“A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.” FilmUniverseEmotionalDisrespect Author:Mark Duplass
“The most difficult thing about acting and directing in a film is acting and directing in a film. Every ounce of your physical and emotional being, and your analytical and thoughtful and producorial being, is being exercised at all points. You are 100% working on overdrive, but because it is only for X amount of days, if you have the stomach for it, you hustle through. It's a massive undertaking, and I think preparation is the key to success for that endeavor.” ThinkingFilmDifficultActingEmotionalPreparationThoughtfulKey To SuccessHustle Author:Lake Bell
“My interest in music tends toward being orchestral music. And the repertoire of music that exists is, to me, far more emotive than what is standardly used in movie scores. That isn't always. I think there've been some excellent movie scores by excellent directors. But for the most part, watching a film, one of today's movies, I think that the emotional undertone of movie scores is pretty poor.” ThinkingFilmInterestPoorEmotionalExcellent Author:Crispin Glover
“I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that’s my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.” PeopleMeanDifferentHardFilmChallengesEmotionalDirectorsMeetingsHard TimesDifferent ThingsDiscussingArticulating Author:Amy Adams
“I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.” ThinkingYearsBeautifulFilmMovingOpportunityHeavenCareersComedyEmotionalRegretPenniesNo RegretsHave No Regrets Author:Steve Martin