Quotes About Observation

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

In a drama, the camera doesn't exist. In a documentary, it does.

A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.

I'm not a doctor. I can only assess that Donald Trump that I knew in 2003 and the Donald Trump that I knew in 2017. And he is not the same man.

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

My parents are really, really talented and really good at what they do, so I've always learned from watching them. But their style is something that you can't really learn. They never went to drama school and neither did I.

As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves can see.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

I usually find a couple of guys in the offseason to watch - their clips, their games and see how they play. Aaron Rodgers is one. I try to watch Drew Brees.

I'm more of a window-shopper; if anything catches my eye, I drop in.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I'm pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what's happening to me.

The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

Everything is educational.

There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

I see people doing things in their Blackberrys, and I need paper. Lines. Alphabets. I need to see it. It's so elementary, man.