Quotes About Observation

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

I'm pretty sure whoever said, people are wonderful spent very little time with people.

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment and nobody else shows up and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.

No matter what happens, I am conscious all the time.