Quotes About Visuals

Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.

The camera should never anticipate what's about to follow.

Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and visuals can have such emotional impact if you can harness the thematic thread between how scenes look and how your characters feel. I like to tug on that thread.

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.

A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done with care and a lot more details.

The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just dont take them very often.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

CHAPTER 13: WORKING WITH STYLE SHEETS

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

Everything gleamed or glinted on TV in the '70s, from the 'flavor crystals' in Folgers coffee to the yellow dentures dipped in Polident and instantly restored to pristine, piano-key whiteness.

For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

We shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

In the Seventies, album artwork became really beautiful items. The whole process of doing an album sleeve, it became a very artistic thing.

With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves.