Quotes About Visuals

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today... pictures are being used for talking.

I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

I love IMAX when it works right.

For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

believe me it is not. Better still, let me prove it. From prehistoric cave paintings to the map of the London Underground, images, diagrams and charts have long been at the heart of human storytelling. The reason why is simple: our brains are wired for visuals. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it speaks,' wrote the media theorist John Berger in the opening lines of his 1972 classic, Ways of Seeing.

I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.

YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment.

You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.

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Great graphics requires more than just high-performance hardware. Gamers know software is just as important.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

Dragon's Lair' we played a lot as kids. It's a fun game to look at - it's not a very fun game to play. Everyone who played it as a kid had the same experience: It's outrageously expensive, it looks really cool, it draws you in like a magnet, and then it just takes your money and is very frustrating.

What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color!

Avatar' is very mind-blowing - or eye-blowing, maybe - especially in 3-D.

I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.