Sensibility Quotes

In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks, bullshit walks, I guess.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."

I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.

We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.