Quotes About Response

The generating of any image is a process in egoless participatory response to some apparent "subject" or "subject-context". The image is not to replicate or "objectify" the apparent "subject" by means of the response. The image is the response itself—ecstatic, beyond and prior to "point of view", "object", separateness, duality, reflection, and likeness.

The difference between an opportunity and a problem is the individual that first faces the situation.

His response was incomprehensible to me. How could you not want to know...Wasn't curiosity a simple fact of human nature?

The retreat into sameness—assimilation for those who can manage it—is the most passive and debilitating of responses to political repression, economic insecurity, and a renewed open season on difference.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

The hospital has adjusted itself in response to Covid-19, the influx of patients. So walking into the hospital, you immediately realize that you're playing a different ballgame.

We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.

If anyone pays me a compliment, I'll do almost anything.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.

The environment shapes people's actions.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

It gives me a huge buzz when people say they've enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it's an absolute passion, and it's lovely when I get feedback.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

A performer needs and craves a live audience.

The crowd is a performer. En masse, a crowd has its own personality, its own character. And there are going to be nights when the crowd delivers a great performance. And there are going to be nights when the crowd bombs.