Quotes About Visuals

Cinema is a larger-than-life representation. I wish to bring it to the small-screen.

So many films are being shot on the DSLR, that they're all starting to look the same. There's a shallow depth of field. It's a nice look, but I can always identify a film shot with a DSLR.

I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

I do feel that it's very important to see positive imagery.

I know how important imagery is.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

All businesses need images to sell their products and services.

For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive.

I don't over-photoshop my images; I really don't like to do that so much.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

Technology is a very important part of cinema.

I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.

The clothes, the facial hair, the poses—the whole vibe made it feel like a Doobie Brothers album cover.

I don't think that photorealism is required to offer emotions. You can have very abstract characters and renderings offering the same type of emotions - look at Pixar movies: they're not photorealistic; they're stylised, and it doesn't prevent emotion from happening.

Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering.

I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the first interesting films I liked as a kid were German expressionist silent films.

Ever since I made the short film 'Black And White,' which had almost no dialogues, the idea of making a silent feature film fascinated me.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

Instagram really gives me a chance to be creative.

I think people are feeling more artistic and creative with something like Instagram that makes editing easy. That's a good thing for sure.