Bruno Dumont Quotes

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

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

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

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.

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

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

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.