Stefan Zweig Quotes

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

I love when a TV show, or entertainment in general, makes me feel something; be it positive, be it negative, be it happiness, be it awkward, uncomfortable if it can make me feel, it's done it's job.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.

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

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

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

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

You can strike an emotional chord but it's very difficult to strike an economic chord.