Quotes About Visual

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

Television is a very gratifying medium.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

It's hard, the green screen; it's a different way of working.

There are always challenges to green screen.

Visually, my trademarks have always been my glasses and hair.

Kind of like a pear, he had thought, with a point on one end and a fat little body; a flying pear.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

People have always wondered if I'm trying to push the envelope when it comes to my cinema - they keep questioning the visual graphics and the controversial content.

In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

From the time I could visually perceive film or TV, I was just enthralled by it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.

I've got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a '60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it's entirely visual and has little function. I've hardly got any knives, and there's only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I've got a cheese grater, so that's good.

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.