Juno Temple 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.

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.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

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.

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

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.

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

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

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

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

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

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

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.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

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

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

Intimacy is healing.

There's a bizarre comfort and safety in doing your last and most intimate scenes with the actor you've worked most closely.