Jennifer Love Hewitt Quotes

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal journey.

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I'm interested in making films that make people think.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

The impact that movies, film, and TV have on me - the way that they can toy with my emotions - is beautiful, and I've always wanted to do that for other people.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

TV is really fun because there are so many different things you can play with; you can tell a story in a really, really rich way.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.

I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.