Phil Elverum Quotes

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

I overdramatize.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.

I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.

I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

I have a romantic side.

I'm a sentimental guy.

The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama.

If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.

What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.

All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.