Quotes About Observation

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

I was a bit disappointed to discover that the French Riviera seems to have a large motorway running along the edge of it.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

You'll find that I've watched around 400 games at age-group level, from six to 14 years old, over the last eight years because both my sons play for academy teams - and I have not seen a single dive.

It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.

Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.