Hugh Grant Quotes

Very honestly, I don't feel 'Munnabhai' is a comedy film. I seriously feel it is a very emotional film.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

'Birugali Yondige' is a pathos song, but it sounds romantic.

I wanted to do music that was a little more sentimental, emotional, and serene - completely different from the party music I was doing.

The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.

Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful.

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art.

Cacie Dalager's voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart.

I feel like you could listen to any Bon Iver song and it would make you cry. They're all so heart-wrenching.

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.

I don't like party music. I like emotional music.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

I write with all my heart