Film Emotions Quotes

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.

You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set].

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.

You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

Khamoshiyan' is emotional like 'Raaz.'

You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.