Quotes About Viewing

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

If you stand far enough away from a picture, even a large one, the problem of the edges being at a different distance from you diminishes. Leonardo determined that a proper vantage point for a large picture should be ten to twenty times its width or height. "Stand back until your eye is at least twenty times as far off as the greatest height and width of your work

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

Your grandmother needs a ride to the viewing, and I'm holding you responsible if she shoots someone, gets arrested, or tries to take a selfie with the deceased.

Are you sure you don't know where Jimmy is hiding?' 'Maybe I'll remember if you show me your tits.' 'That's disgusting. This is a viewing. There's a dead woman in there.' 'How about if I asked to see them in a bar?' 'No.' 'Suppose I bought you dinner?' 'No.' 'What if I was in the hospital with a heart attack?' 'No.' 'Boy, you're tough. Most women would go for the heart attack.

We better hurry, Grandma said. I don't want to be late for the viewing. I want to get a good seat right up front, and there'll probably be a crowd, being that the deceased was shot. You know how some people are nosy about that sort of thing. There was silence at the table, no one daring to make a comment. Well, I guess I might be a little nosy, Grandma finally said.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.

If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.

Watching films I'm in is always a bit odd, especially when I'm watching them for the first time with other people. It's hard not to see my faults.

I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

"A soulmate is someone whose way of viewing life is not necessarily the same as yours but complements yours. There is not a compromise, there is a complement."

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Poetry requires a manner of viewing things which is not that of the average man, but is individual to the poet; it requires, in a word, genius. One could hardly expect Milton to point this out; having genius himself he would assume that everyone else had genius; he would assume that we all had the power of looking at the world not only frankly but freshly because he would not understand any other way of looking at it.