Rich Moore Quotes

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

It's all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that 'Next to Normal' is affecting people, it goes beyond my wildest dreams of what I set out to do when I started to write 'Next to Normal.'

When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

My proudest moment is when I'm part of a good film, when people are touched by it.

I always prefer to end a show where you're feeling creatively on top.

I have had such a satisfying career; I've gotten to do so many amazing things as an artist.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

Sometimes I know a film might not pull the audience to the theatres and have a great collection at the box office. But I need to do these films for creative satisfaction and give something different to the audience.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.