Quotes About Depiction

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

Acting is very similar to modeling.

If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking depiction of difficult emotions, and an exploration of interesting ideas.

Witches are commonly depicted reading. This may not seem unusual today, however up until the eighteenth century artists rarely depicted women in the act of reading with two significant exceptions: women who are clearly studying devotional material and witches who study books of magic.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

All Sam Peckinpah ever did in his movies was show that getting hit on the chin doesn't sound like [makes a small popping noise]. When one grown man hits another grown man in the face, it splatters like an overripe tomato. And it's not fun getting killed. It's bloody and gory and altogether unpleasant. That's all Sam Peckinpah ever did.

What most moved me in his letter was the sense of frustration that permeated the lieutenent's words: the frustration of never quite being able to depict or explain anything to his full satisfaction.

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

Nobody would dare to show Rajini sir in bad light through a film.

Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn't really become real to me until I draw them.

Contemporary trends of thought have imagined art to be a fountain, whereas it is a sponge. They have decided that art ought to gush forth, whereas it should absorb and become saturated. They think it can be broken down into means of depiction, whereas it is composed of organs of perception. Its proper task is to be always among the spectators and to look more purely, receptively and faithfully than all others.

She was the portrait to his father's Dorian Gray – all the anxiety you'd expect him to feel was manifest in her.

Yeah, Patrice Johnson is an incredible actress. She makes it real easy to cry when she cries.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Undoubtedly, he suffered on the Cross, but icons don't depict him in agony. They show him as our rescuer, the great hero of our salvation story.

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's bad; it has to be an embodiment. You have to live it, not just sound and look like it.

As a fan of the franchise, I count myself among the countless LGBTQ fans who have longed to see themselves and our relationships depicted on 'Star Trek.'

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.