Alicia Vikander Quotes

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

I like all films whether it's dark or light, love, hate, whatever it is, I enjoy it.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

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

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

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

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

Eventually, when I got the 'Meadowland' script, I saw something in it that made me think I could make something special out of it, something that could work with my style. Emotionally, I connected to it. I thought, 'If I feel this way just imagining it, maybe we can make that happen on screen and make people feel something when they watch it.'

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.