Abigail Disney Quotes

There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it's like a real relationship.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

Love without conversation is impossible.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

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

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are.

“Frank’s” really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in “Room” as well.

I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.

It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet!