Visceral Quotations

'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social good' label. And I actually had this very visceral reaction - I just didn't like that at all.

I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Meanwhile, we spend peanuts on human psychology. We have to take account of the deep atavistic and visceral traits.

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.

I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us a sense of wonder. Film, like no other medium, makes a visceral appeal to our humanity.

Just on a visceral level, the fact that Pluto has a whole suite of companions will make some people feel better.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

I think it's going to be difficult for the president. Whatever political capital he thought he had last year is spent and, like the rest of the federal government, is in deficit. Amnesty, on a visceral level, most Americans object to.

You do have to have the right components to get there. I think it has to have that sort of edge-of-your-seat appeal where people know they are going to be stimulated in a visceral sort of way.

Usually, you have to tell people what a movie's about to make them care about it, but everyone has a visceral connection to Sept. 11 coming in.

Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.

The exhibit gives you the real, visceral experience of lifting a heavy load, but at the same time it also teaches people about simple mechanics.

There are a lot of people who hate Wal-Mart. In the absence of data, they have a visceral reaction,

We're never going to outspend the competition in the marketing or production of a movie. What we can do as well or better than the studios ... is a realistic, gut-level, visceral horror movie that doesn't rely on special effects.

Because I look Asian, when I am showing in Europe or North America, people tend to approach my work as if it was made by someone completely immersed in the Asian tradition. There is an exotic aspect to the way people perceive my work. Asians from other places tend to relate to my work on a very visceral level.

Every region has its own specialties, and whether it was Christmas Eve and the seafood dinner and the seven courses, whichever family you were from, it's a visceral part of your life.

Everybody in the world knows the town of Gettysburg. A lot of children know about Abraham Lincoln. If they know about Lincoln, they know about the Gettysburg Address. Next to people's own hometown, Gettysburg is the most beloved small town in America. When people hear the words Gettysburg and casino, they have a strong visceral reaction that it doesn't fit.

As the advertising world becomes more cluttered, it makes a difference for them to stand out and really connect with the consumers. Sponsorship in the arts is a way to connect with the customers on more of an emotional and visceral level.

These classic shows deserve to be revived. Otherwise, people have no context for these great songs which become such a visceral part of our awareness.

These are very accessible films. They're very character-driven but also visceral at the same time. They'll appeal to the same audience that's interested in 'The Sopranos.

We also found that a modest exercise program equivalent to a brisk 30-minute walk six times a week can prevent accumulation of visceral fat, while even more exercise can actually reverse the amount of visceral fat.

'Up the Junction' went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn't necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage.

People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the same amount of food as they did when they were young. They need to know that their basal metabolic rate decreases with age. Gaining weight means not only increasing the amount of subcutaneous fat in the body, but visceral as well, and this is the major factor in lifestyle-related diseases.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

There's just something visceral about moving a puppet frame by frame, ... There's a magical quality about it. Maybe you can get smoother animation with computers, but there's a dimension and emotional quality to this kind of animation that fits these characters and this story.

There's just something visceral about moving a puppet frame by frame. There's a magical quality about it. Maybe you can get smoother animation with computers, but there's a dimension and emotional quality to this kind of animation that fits these characters and this story.

This is a rough story for journalists to cover because your journalism textbook has to take a back seat to your moral compass, and the coverage is visceral because of this. When people beg Chris Lawrence for help, they're forcing him to be not just a spectator but a reluctant leader.

In our study, the control group that did not exercise saw a sizable and significant 8.6 percent increase in visceral fat in only six months.

serves first and foremost as an incredibly visceral reminder of how much uncertainty you have in your world.

It's really the perfect storm for fund-raising: We have a great nominee and Democrats' visceral dislike of the incumbent president's policies.

I just couldn't say no. The material is so provocative and visceral that I'm really excited to do it.

By the second act, you realize this young man is not going to live, ... Something visceral happens. I remember you could hear people start crying, and they would cry at different places. There's something about that that's what theater is all about. The audience has bought into the story, into the person, to the degree that it matters what happens next on the stage. It's at the heart of why live theater works in a way that the movies and television can rarely hope to. There's some kind of primal human connection to that kind of storytelling.

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

These survey findings underscore the fact that when Baby Boomers are asked to address the potential of Alzheimer's in their future, they are clearly not ready emotionally, psychologically or financially. Many Boomers are currently more focused on health issues like heart disease or arthritis and mistakenly consider AD a problem of their elders. But when asked to consider themselves at age 70 with Alzheimer's disease, there was a visceral reaction and an awakening to the reality of what could await them.

The most logical explanation is that the scale of what we were actually able to observe on TV on Sept. 11 - planes crashing into buildings, buildings collapsing - were so visceral and immediate,

The bottom line is, I am against capital punishment, despite my understanding of the visceral attraction it has for most Americans.

The combination of Aaron and Anderson gives us fire and ice. Anderson is about visceral experience. Aaron is kind of about the cerebral analysis.

This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.