Matthew Quick Quotes

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology.

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

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are.

Somebody's willingness to let me photograph them, and willingness to tell me a story, has nothing to do with the words I say. It all has to do with the energy I'm giving off, which hopefully is very genuine, very interested energy. It's just two people having a conversation in the street. I think that's where genuine content comes from.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people who sat across from me began to cry. I was incredibly moved by this experience also, and was very curious to know what happens in our brains when we spend time not talking, just looking at one another.