Mickey Sumner Quotes

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.

Love stories should be relatable.

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

A lot of actors give a performance that many people connect with and they end up talking about it a lot of their life.

At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way.

Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you never expect it. It it's not the one you think you will be in love with, you know. You think always that he will be with a beard, and black, and big and finally he's Chinese and you know it's the same thing. There's something very organic about the film and if you forgot it, if you don't have this seed in it...this organic flavor in it the film doesn't work it's wrong.

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.