Quotes About Visual

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

The first thing you do before you take a swing with a driver is put it down and see how it looks to your eye. If you don't like how it looks, it's going to be difficult to hit a good shot.

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done.

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

I'll tell you what 'The Simpsons' is really good at. They'll describe something, you don't see it, and it's funnier when you describe it.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

I'm a massive hater of 3D. I don't like it at all. For me, you go to a movie theatre and you want to be taken to a place and transported to a place and be in that environment, and I know 3D is meant to do that, but the effect for me is the reverse. I feel like I'm looking though muddy water, and I can't really see the image.

In a regular theatre, you'd be kind of moving your eye from one character 5 feet over to the right on the cut. In IMAX, suddenly that's like 20 feet. So I would love to do something. I think I would really want to take the massive screen into consideration so that it would be done properly.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

that "television advertisements would be most effective if the visual display created repetitive vertical movement of the television viewers' heads

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.