Zitat des Tages über Emotionales Leben / Emotional Life:
The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.
Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.
The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.
As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.