Quotes About Visual

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Write visually or die!

Visual receptors in the brain outnumber auditory receptors 30:1.32 In other words, the chances of a word (or sentence) being retained in our memory bank are thirty times greater if we see it instead of just hear it.

The forensic use of visual evidence started not with the introduction of modern technologies like photography, but instead with the phantasmic construction of "illegible" and "foreign" bodies.

one of the most fascinating aspects of this case must be the question of what constitutes "visual evidence" and how racialized femininity impacts and alters that assumption.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

When we're engaged in physical activity, our visual sense is sharpened, especially with regard to stimuli appearing in the periphery of our gaze. This shift, which is also found in non-human animals, makes evolutionary sense: the visual system becomes more sensitive when we are actively exploring our environment. When our bodies are at rest—that is, sitting still in a chair—this heightened acuity is dialed down.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.

Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.

As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.

One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.