Reed Morano Quotes

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Theatre taught me to convert a scene into a vision.

I want to make the movies that move people in a way they've never been moved before.

Early on, many years ago when we started 'Avatar,' the executive that we were working with said to make the sad scenes sadder, the funny scenes funnier, the scary scenes scarier. That was kind of permission to do what we felt comfortable with.

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.