Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people who sat across from me began to cry. I was incredibly moved by this experience also, and was very curious to know what happens in our brains when we spend time not talking, just looking at one another.

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.

I don't want to say it's nice to see people cry, because of course it isn't, but there's something really emotional and lovely about seeing the impact you're having on someone's life.

Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing.

You know what matters? Touching people. Being a real person. Because when you're in front of real people, they gon' give you a real reaction.

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

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

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.