Sante D'Orazio Quotes

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.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

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.

Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.

I think you first have to feel 100% comfortable with the person that you are with. I have written in sessions where I am just meeting the person for the first time and it is extremely difficult.

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

If a fan approaches me and I feel like they have some kind of agenda, I'm probably gonna get real closed-off and not talk to them. But if I feel a connection with someone, or if I feel a certain trust with somebody, I feel like, 'You know what, I can open up to this person and tell them about an experience.'

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught.

You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.

No matter whom I've worked with, they've always created a great bond with me.

It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

What you want to do is put people in a position where they feel connected enough to you that they're willing to collaborate with you; they're willing to show you the things that they were scared to tell you about before.

I'm a big believer in communication.

I don't have any problems getting people to open up.

You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.

I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.