Resonance Quotes

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that`s success enough already.

It`s a little-known fact, but I wanted Han Solo to die at the end of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). I thought it would give more weight and resonance. But George Lucas wasn`t sympathetic. He didn`t want me killed by those teddy bear guys.

Even now, people want to marginalize me. They want to attribute all my success to teenagers seeing my movies. I really resent it when people say, "It`s just a genre film; it`s a teen comedy." It takes a lot of work to make these things have heart and resonance so they`re not just empty, disposable confections. But I don`t give a damn about other people`s perceptions, because I`ll show them. For women in this business, ascendancy is always a battle. It`s scrape and claw. I just try to stick to my guns and respect myself. I want to take the ingenues aside and say, "Value yourself! It`s O.K. if you have opinions!" (On struggling to be taken seriously in the industry.) (Vanity Fair - September 2004 - "Regally Blonde" by Leslie Bennetts)

My voice has gotten deeper and it`s all down to when I was living in Australia. I could speak and only barely sing. Deep down I knew that something was chronically wrong with my voice. It was polyps. The first thing the doctor said to me, "You smoke a lot of dope, don`t you?" I gasped and said, "How do you know?" The doctor said, "I can tell by the way you`re talking. If you`re a singer, the worse thing you can do is smoke dope." We did the operation in Australia and it lowered the timbre of my voice. It`s deeper, has more resonance and it`s stronger. I used to be a piano player who sang and now I`m a singer who plays piano.

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we`d gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can`t really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren`t going to go there. We`d have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it`s crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

All of these deep, deep emotional things, good and bad, so that if you`re able to do that, then there`s a kind of resonance that happens.

I have no rules. For me, it`s a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You`re looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I`d like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you`re a different person. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.

I think the play has a real resonance, given where we are right now.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

It`s tempting to say the Ph.D. didn`t have an effect, but it`s not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

(Ten years on, it is difficult to find many who would argue that Simpson was innocent. But there are plenty who believe he should not have been convicted because the prosecution did not make a strong enough case.) OJ Simpson is not Everybrother, ... Likewise, Nicole Simpson is not Everyvictim and Mark Fuhrman is not Everyracist ... Whatever the verdict, I don`t think the OJ Simpson trial will have deep, profound or lasting resonance in American culture. It will not be transformative. It`s a bad mini-series gone out of control.