Quotes About Visuals

Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.

Our eyes captures thousands of beautiful pictures everyday.

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

I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film - and how you feel as you watch the images.

With 'Enter the Void,' I didn't know you could go to this place of surrealism in a movie. I felt sick when I watched it. It really stuck with me.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.

My normal way of filming something is, like, one camera, very well planned out, knowing exactly how we're going to get each shot.

Playing with light is something that is very important, especially when you want cinematography in your game.

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

Cartoons only showed you certain things. The comic books go in deep.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

Film is very condensed.

In every Kubrick movie, there is so much great thought put into the surroundings. It's almost like the sets are huge characters in the movie at all times.

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

Movies are] like writing history with lightning.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.

I'm a big 3-D convert.