Quotes About Observation

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.