Hal David Quotes

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.