Quotes About Immediacy

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

If you wish to see it as it should be seen, don't wait - there's little time. How do you get there? Well, I couldn't tell you.

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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Violins, horns, drums, speeches—a mouth against a microphone in some faraway yet simultaneous evening—the sorcery of it holds him rapt.

The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.

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I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'

Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

La excursión por el pequeño mundo que nos rodea, el mundo de la familia, el hogar, la comida y el vestido, nos ayuda a entender la inmediatez del enjambre de símbolos que nos envuelve.

There is no time like the present to present the present

Anaïs, I can't say much now—I am in a fever.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

The story in Lincoln dramatizes the President's efforts to install a 13th Amendment to the Constitution that abolishes slavery. His struggle is more than politically correct; it is presumed inarguably correct which takes the movie outside of history; outside of dramatic immediacy. Watching Lincoln is very much like observing a flesh-and-blood diorama. Everything is soon to be settled (within 2½ hours); there's no emotional suspense.

The reason that I was so quick was because I was impatient. I couldn't wait to hit the next shot.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.