Emotional Logic Quotes

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.

Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That's the same whether it's for stage or film or television or whatever.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

You have to play the logic of a character.

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.