Greg Berlanti Quotes

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.