Jason Nash 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.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

My proudest moment is when I'm part of a good film, when people are touched by it.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

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.'

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.