Psychological Resonance Quotes

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

To me, the stories that have always intrigued me are the stories of people leaving my movies and being affected by them. They walk home 20 blocks the wrong way. Or they lock themselves in their office. Or they find themselves weeping when in the shower after the film. And those intrigue me, because I know I've touched something inside them.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

I think the only way we can really get you to laugh hard is if we take it to a deep psychological place. It has to resonate with you on a really deep level in order for you to really do that good guffaw.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.