Quotes About Depiction

Tolkien believed that while myth and fairy tale must reflect religious truth, they must do so subtly, never depicting religion as it appears in "the known form of the primary 'real' world.

I do not refute the divine, but only its false depiction, and my thinking is maligned by any who say otherwise.

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

In a certain sense God has committed to every father the responsibility to embody, as a person, the ultimate revelation of the Bible, fatherhood. To be a real father is the most perfect depiction of God that any man can achieve, because it is the ultimate revelation of God Himself. In fact, every father represents God to his family. That is not an option! The question is, Do you as a father represent God rightly or wrongly?

I feel like a lot of characters on TV don't have the time to tell that many aspects of a character's story and personality.

Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn't a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?

A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.

The depiction of women by women (sometimes themselves) as a political statement grows potentially more powerful as it approaches actual exploitation but then, within an ace of it, collapses into ambiguity and confusion. The more attractive the women, the higher the risk, since the more closely they approach conventional stereotypes in the first place.

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's 'Blue Velvet.'

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

Film in many ways is very literal.

Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?

Who made the first graphic depiction of the Empire State Building depends on who's telling the story, but either Raskob or Lamb pulled out a big pencil and held it skyward.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!