Saul Bass Quotes

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

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

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.

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.

You either have to make people love you or you have to make them hate you, it doesn't really matter either way. If you can't bring that emotion out of your audience then you're not going to have them for long.

Cinema has to move people.

I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put off by an intellectual approach to drag.

People like to be moved, that's why they're here listening to you instead of sitting at home with the Shipping Forecast.

A film sells feelings.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

A lot of actors give a performance that many people connect with and they end up talking about it a lot of their life.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

I want to make the movies that move people in a way they've never been moved before.

At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.

My goal is to always try to make you feel something, whether that's humor or sadness or excitement, and to try to manipulate screen space.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

Attention spans are so limited and ticket prices so high. We're anyway in a business of manipulating emotions. But each film needs to be positioned truthfully so that people don't feel cheated.

Mere recording of an event will not make it a historical document. It will become obsolete with time. Only those that emotionally connect with the audience will stand the test of time.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Too often in the theatre people can't wait for intermission to get some chocolate or something. But with Come Back, Little Sheba I just hope people leave feeling like they've spent a really good two-hours in that house with us.