Quotes About Visuals

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I'm not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they're wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero's 'sharply intelligent blue eyes' and 'outthrust determined chin'.

No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

I've always put a lot of stock in aesthetics and visuals. I truly believe a picture is worth a thousand words and that fashion and glamour have the power to transport and transform someone.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema.

I don't know, I'm still a little bit like, when you blend CGI well with real life, it's impressive, but if you remove real life completely, I still get pulled out of the movie a bit.

I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.