Quotes About Visuals

We're always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.

I just love sitting in a theater watching a film and the grain is like boiling and it feels completely alive like an organism almost; like an organism made out of light.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

I think the key to the success of a music video lies in its concept and the overall look.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

The concept is to establish a welcoming structure and routine by assigning students to tables and lunchtime discussion topics based upon their mutual (or similar) passions. If possible, the tables could be moved off to one side of the cafeteria, away from the distracting noise and visuals, to help foster successful conversations.

The pictures slipped past again and I kept looking at them. Some of the scans were sepia pictures, going back a hundred years; some were black-and-white; some were oversaturated, from the sixties and seventies. Many were recent, direct digital. Finally

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

I would love to study photography.

There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.