Catharsis Quotes

"I think I started to see that acting was a really great catharsis for me. I`ve always been really creative and artistic, but I think acting was something that I could pour my creative energy into, and it took all of me. To this day, I haven`t found that feeling anywhere else."

There`s always a bit of catharsis in film-making in general, in the arts. We`re really all alone. We can`t ever get inside another person`s spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words. I became obsessed about that.

"The real hopeful thing about theater and the arts in general is you take these painful experiences and you shape them, give them form -- and people can experience them together. You come out of an experience like this not devastated, not demolished by it, but hopefully healed or having experienced a catharsis."

There`s something about a catharsis that is very important.

After leaving Evanescence, I dealt with a lot of sh--, then being diagnosed as bipolar, and my heavy drug use and rehab ... this record went through all that with me, so making it was a complete catharsis, ... I`m focusing on me and getting the unhealthy things out of my life, which isn`t always an easy thing to do, but that`s been my main focus right now. I`m still on a journey, you know, but I`m a lot happier now. I can sleep easier.

I call attention to the dark side maybe a little bit for mutual catharsis but also to try to paint the universe as it is - both sides of it.