Quotes About Observation

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other...I don't know. I can just tell.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

I always watch the work I do.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.