Alexa Chung Quotes

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

I know the feeling of being with a person with whom I have nothing in common, and yet there they are, and there we are, together, sharing pieces of our lives.

Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.