Quotes About Depiction

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

Hegel is not to be blamed for depicting the nature of the modern state as it is, but rather for presenting what is as the essence of the state. The claim that the rational is actual is contradicted precisely by an irrational actuality, which everywhere is the contrary of what it asserts and asserts the contrary of what it is.

I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

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He commanded a painter to reverse the figures and the attitudes; and the emperors were delineated on the same canvas, approaching in a suppliant posture to empty their bags of tributary gold

Dogs and horses are difficult; demons and fascinating things are easy". The idea is that painting dogs and horses is difficult because they are so ordinary; demons and grotesque objects, on the other hand, are quite easily depicted.

The storm is a glazier. Then fog passes through, touches the cold trees to add to the ice already there. Here the wind spins glass from the water it has stolen off the sea and the lakes, off the hair on my head and the breath out of my mouth, the storm takes the water from us all everywhere, to make of a mountain range a stained-glass depiction of a saint no one knows.

History is but the nail on which the picture hangs.

I used to struggle a lot with the depiction of violence in 'EastEnders.' I had more meetings with producers about that than anything else. Because it's kind of cartoon violence, and I worry when my little boy watches it.

To do this movie in a watered-down fashion or have these characters be watered down wouldn't have been near as effective. It wouldn't have been staying true to what this 'Watchmen' phenomenon is.

There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.