Rich Moore Quotes

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return other than that we think and feel.

When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.

Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.

Fight scenes, comedy - all are insignificant to me at a personal level.

As my face got cleaner, my relationships got cleaner.

Entertainment is all about helping people feel things that they might not have access to normally. They watch something and it makes them feel something, and that makes them reflective about their own life, you know?

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.