Peter Stone Quotes

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too.