Jacques Audiard Quotes

I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing.

You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.