Quotes About Observation

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

It was fun playing a pregnant woman. I have seen my cousins and friends go through the beautiful journey of being a mother and I tried to copy them.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

When you play football in the Premier League, everybody is watching.

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.

When I don't reraise with a premium hand like K-K, I'll just smooth-call. Sometimes I just don't want to announce the strength of my hand to the entire table.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

Being part of the national Test set-up is an experience I enjoyed. I learnt by watching the players prepare for matches.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated. For this reason, I consider it more common than previously thought.

I thought of making a film with an animal. But many movies have already come with the same idea. On the other hand, what I have observed is, when children watch cartoon shows, they usually get excited with the presence of pigs or piglets in those shows.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Ordinarily, when you go to see a play, an awful lot is presented in front of your eyes.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.