Arthur Miller Quotes

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

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.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

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

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Theatre just fills me up so much.

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.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.