Emotional Tone Quotes

Now we are all sons of bitches.

Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.

You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.

A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

I've read some criticism of 'The Good Doctor' that says it's overly sweet and syrupy. I'll take that criticism, given the world that we live in. I'd much rather be on that side of the equation than the opposite.