Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way. The art of cinema can communicate that way, and that's why I wanted to do it that way.
It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.
Basically, we are pack animals. We may be evolving toward hive animals. The nature of the pack is that if all the eyes of the pack are on you, you are either the leader, or you are lunch. So it's a basically hazardous situation to have the eyes of the pack upon you. And I think that's really visceral. I think that's bred in the bone. That's species - deep.
A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.
I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.
It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.
I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?
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.
Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.
Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.
Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.
I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.
