People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.
Everyone wants drama. Everyone is living for drama.
The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel.
Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.
I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.
Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.
One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.
Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.
Voters don't just want to see detached and distant faces on TV, they want to feel that they know the people that they're trying to vote for.
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.
But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.
I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.
