Affective Experience Quotes

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.

Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

There is no such thing as happy music.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.