Quotes About Visual

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into a shot goes into the aesthetic issues of, 'Is it a good shot or not?'

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

As a cinematographer or director, I'm always looking for projects that are able to say a lot with the actor's expressions.

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.

In this industry, people like to look at different faces on their screens - even I do.

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that photography has undergone dramatic changes in its technical, cultural, and critical composition.

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

With manga, in my art style, I don't do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don't do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself.

When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.

The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

My goal from the very beginning was to make very visually lush, juicy films that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always been part of my modus operandi.