Matt Bomer Quotes

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.

I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.

You can do a good movie, or you can do a good movie that can help people to feel the idea of what it is like to live. It can be good in an artificial way; it can be also a good movie for your own existence. You don't know that when you do a movie. You don't know if you succeeded, which is the most difficult thing.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Action alone doesn't work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

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.

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.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

All art is about appealing to emotion.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.

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.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.