Galen Rowell Quotes

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

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

I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

Things have to touch me as a human being. I do films that touch my heart.

A lot of actors give a performance that many people connect with and they end up talking about it a lot of their life.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.