Paul Auster Quotes

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

Some memories are best absorbed through your eyes in real time, even if you have no record of it later. Because then you can access that memory and how you felt in that moment. If you're looking at your cellphone screen, taking a video of something that is otherwise unforgettable, watching it later will not recover the emotion you would have had, had you witnessed it directly.

If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.

The reason the rest of us remember, like, when John Lennon died, is because it's a moment when adrenaline is surging.

The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that’s above and beyond what’s expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be funny. It can be so many different things. And it just and it gives you variety from and again, there's a certain stylization that happens with music. Animation and music seem to go together well.