Heather Matarazzo Quotes

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

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

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

You can't expect critics to appreciate all kinds of cinema.

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

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

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film, and all they write about is 48 frames.

I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.