Quotes About Subtlety

In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to act with your whole body.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn't say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.

I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.

I usually stick to the classic things that I know which is a nude lip and a nude eye.

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the characters speak for themselves and don't give you all the information.

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.

In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.

When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met. I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Details are always vulgar

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety.

True or false? Ars est celare artem (Art lies in concealing the art).

If you are going to prove anything, don't let anybody know it. Do it so subtly, so adroitly, that no one will feel that you are doing it. This was expressed succinctly by Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The difference was in the details.

Whether the perpetrator is acting under direct satanic sway, or indirectly in the way that all sin can be ultimately tied to satan's province, a certain degree of deceit and subtlety can be assumed in all sexual abuse.