Dean Devlin Quotes

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'

The best compliment we ever got on 'Clone Wars' was a parent coming up and telling me that it was something they could watch with their kids. I really love that.

I keep saying this to everyone: 'Grand Masti' is a family film that the entire family needs to watch - independently!

'Countdown' is family television.

Heart is fun for the whole family!

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

I think that people want to go to the movies and watch shows on TV or in theaters that make them feel good and music really does that. Not only can you watch something and connect to dialogue, but when you listen to a song, it gives a whole other element of connection and you get that feeling like you want to stand up and dance and sing.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

When people come to my shows, they have the freedom to feel something, and we're all just a big bowl of feels.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Entertainment is all about helping people feel things that they might not have access to normally. They watch something and it makes them feel something, and that makes them reflective about their own life, you know?

Most people love animals, and most people love to laugh. Combining the two makes both resonate deeper.

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

I think it's one of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make them think about their lives, or make them laugh or make them cry or make them understand something. Or just make them feel something because I think so many of us, including myself, spend too much time not feeling enough, you know?

As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that's important to me.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.