Quotes About Visuals

Going as far back as 'Dexter's Lab,' we've always had these sequences with no dialogue. The interesting thing is those sequences got the biggest reactions.

Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.

The water in 'Life of Pi' is very realistic.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.

Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

Green screen's not my favourite thing to do.

On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.

Be doubly skeptical of graphs that have two vertical axes and omit zero from either or both axes.

I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it.

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. (Face palm!)

I'm not a big fan of CGI. When I look at it, I go: 'Wait a minute. That's not possible.' And I think other people see the same thing. The movies I worked on, we did stunts for real. And I think it shows.

I have seemed to see our kisses there sometimes, I've seen them hanging in the curtains

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

There was a time when country never used to do videos.

We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.