Lucy Davis Quotes

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.

The theatrical experience is also a communal one. When people saw 'Fruitvale' in the theater, there was not a dry eye at the end of the movie, and you would look to your neighbor and have this shared moment together that had a real weight behind it.

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.

I don't know, I always had an active dream life, and there's something so profound and wonderful about a movie. It's so alive. It's so shared. 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.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

One of the greatest things about the theatre is how it can completely change the way you see the world around you. 'Dear Evan Hansen' did this for me.

I don't want people to look back at my matches and say, 'When you did that move, it was good, and I liked it because it was cool.' I want people to sort of remember a rush of images and the emotion that they felt when they saw it. That's when I think you have a real masterpiece in your hands.

I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a character.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

'Finding Dory' just stole my heart. Little Dory was the most adorable thing in the entire world, and Ellen DeGeneres killed the game. I liked the flashbacks to the past - it gave you a bit more perspective and appreciation for certain characters.

If you go to a theme park, there will be so many rides. You will get an exciting experience in each of them. Like that, every film is an experience that entertains you. Some films will touch your heart. Some will touch you emotionally. There is nothing more than that.