Releasing Tension Quotes

When people are sat quietly for 20-25 minutes per frame, they should be allowed to let their hair down at the end of it.

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.

Although there is a beast in all of us, we don't show it often. But it is very liberating to be that angry at times. Given a chance, I'm sure people would like to go on a rampage and break everything.

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.

I'm nervous before all games, but once I hit that first shot, the jitters go away.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.

Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake off some energy and then you as the director get them back on track. When you do loosen up the reins, you get some amazing things, but you have to wring out the performances for every last good drop.

Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about. And in that very relaxation something starts changing in you - a radical change, a transformation - and the small things of life starts having new meaning, new significance. One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in life.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Sometimes punching a bag for half an hour was pretty cathartic and pretty necessary.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

You give power to issues if you pay a lot of attention to them. The more attention you give them the more power they have. So the most powerful thing you can do is just get on and ignore it.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

I think basketball becomes an outlet for it, an opportunity to get that frustration out and forget about all the problems and things you have going on in your life outside.

Sometimes I like to vent.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.