Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It's not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates