Quotes About Observation

Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.

My dad was in these pretty big films that were relevant to my age group. I remember him doing 'Richie Rich' when I was eight-years-old, and then 'Jumanji.' I remember going to these sets, and I loved being on film sets. I just found it fascinating watching how stories were made.

I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

You have to see the situations in games, you can't just rely on other people to do it.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy to disappear.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

I remember when I had to copy writing off the board at school it just looked to me like a magic eye picture, I could just see so many shapes.

I remember when I used to go to coaches' meetings and stuff like that and I would never say anything - I would just sit in a corner and sometimes coaches wouldn't even shake my hand.

I remember when I used to go to York Hall and just watch, and I'd be like 'how are these people doing it.' Even though I was an amateur boxer at the time, I was like 'how are these guys fighting professionally in this arena?'

If you come away from a show thinking of an image, that's as good as remembering a joke. A lot of those shows, like 'The Office,' they are brilliant, but they're not visually interesting.