Shelley Duvall Quotes

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The main purpose of our storyline is to spread happiness. Our cinema has an emotional connect.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

Our sole mission on this show is to make people think, make people feel, and make people happy as much as we can.

Today, they make films where you have to sit for an hour and a half and watch somebody in the process of dying and, for me, that's rather depressing. Films, in the good old days of the golden age of Hollywood, used to want to inspire people and give them uplift. You're paying good money to see a film, and you don't want to leave depressed!

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

I'm very focused on 'Dexter' right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.