Intense Moments Quotes

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.

I always try to find something or some way of delivering the lines or playing the scene that you wouldn't normally expect. And I know that sounds weird, because it's not like I surprise people with shocking performances. But in an interesting way... Just being real and as interesting as possible. Usually, that stuff is the spine of the show. It's the humor that you need in a scene, in an intense moment or something.

Obviously you want to play hard all the time, but at different moments of the game you step it up even more.

Want to know why women don't blink during foreplay? Not enough time.

I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing.

There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they're shooting. So, if someone's falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like.

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.