Nathan Fillion Quotes

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

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

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

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'