Quotes About Visuals

Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

3-D movies can make me nauseous.

I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an updraught.

We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too.

You can't underestimate the importance of cover art.

Cinema felt like a fantasy. It was like watching dreams unfold on the screen before me.

I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

I saw 'Captain America' in 3D. It's cool. I liked the beginning. It's a really good setup.

'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy camera angles.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

By the early 1980s, VCS development was still largely the same, although some changes were brewing. At Atari and Imagic, the first artist-programmer teams were created, allowing artists to focus on sprite and screen visuals.

TTS was the unit that I was directly involved with the productions, and I'm still really, really proud of what we had put together, not just visually but musically at that time and age.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

I shot 'Fruitvale Station' on super-16, and then I shot a movie called 'The Harvest' on 35mm, and then I shot 'Little Accidents' on 2-perf 35.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.