Quotes About Author

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

I have a music-video background, and I feel like the responsibility of a music-video director is to do something that hasn't been done before in a really cool visual way. So much innovation has come in filmmaking through music videos.

With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.

When The Temptations began, we wanted to be visual. So we did our own choreography and developed our own uniforms.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

I'm very visual when I write and get a lot of inspiration from scrolling through Tumblr or Pinterest. I have picture folders to most of the songs I've written. It would be cool to release it as a book one day!

If we do another 'Deadpool,' we'd love to have more money for visual effects. But I don't think anybody does good with an excess of time or money.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.

'Sacred Games' will take Indian visual content to another level.

Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.

There's a DVD called 'The Secret.' It's like visualization and meditation, certain methods I use before games, visualizing the games before they happen.

I have a photographic memory that enables me to visualize what everyone in the huddle is supposed to do on each of the hundreds of plays in our playbook.

First, you need to write the script, re-work on lots of things. First draft, second draft, once the final script is ready then you visualize which actors fits the role in that the particular script they've written.

The 'Batman' franchise is iconic and its a privilege to now be able to visualize it in my own way.

I went in and read for 'Maleficent,' and it was hard to get a concept of what the imagery would be like. So you have a hard time seeing how you'll fit in to the movie through the visuals.

The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal.