Psychological Truth Quotes

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.

drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

Getting control of stuff makes people feel like they have more control over their lives - maybe irrationally, but it's one of these psychological truths.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.