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I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

— Spike Jonze

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

— Joanna Lumley

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

— Ellie Goulding

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

— Janet Echelman

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

— Dave Holland

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

— Mahesh Babu

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

— Alfre Woodard

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

— Elizabeth Moon

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

— Susie Orbach

✗Opposing Perspectives

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

— Richard Gere

I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.

— Shane Carruth