Quotes About Visuals

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.

Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over and over again, marvelling at how that story visually unfolded.

I'm a sucker for packaging!

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

3D is obviously not as suited to drama and romantic comedies. But for what I do, I felt that 3D was a very, very appropriate technology.

There's a relationship between the great poems of the world and the great screenplays: they both deal in compact images.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

Photography must be integrated with the story.