Quotes About Observation

I believe the most interesting thing to look at in the world is the human face, so that is why I tend to be a little closer to human faces than maybe other directors will be.

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

It was forever fascinating to me that men never noticed much about Mary other than, "Well, I mean, she's pretty and everything..." That high gloss, which floored women, went right over men's heads. It was as though they had no receivers for her particular wavelength.

She was a woman made up of details, and he saw them, every one.

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

We wonder how people can't see the most obvious things about themselves, yet we forget those people are us.

There are people we laugh at because they can't see the most obvious things about themselves. Well, those people are us!

When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious habits of man I confess, my friend, I am puzzled

In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

you sit tiller " said Kokka " if whenever you move something jangles.

Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

Die Natur schlägt im Menschen die Augen auf und bemerkt, dass sie da ist.

Marriage is like restaurant; hardly have you been served that you're looking at the neighbour's plate!

I stopped humans to talk about the weather. I wasn't the chatty type, but their surprise at my noticing them seemed odd. I always noticed -- the way they moved, the way they smelled -- I just didn't engage in useless conversation. Even now. This convo about the weather was important because the weather was not acting like itself.

continued staring

Brian Herbert, still watching from the back of the boat, felt justified in losing him in the first place. See, he could say, I told you he was like an eel. The sod must be as double-jointed as a bloody snake.

again. In front of her, PC Rodney Broadstairs looked over his shoulder at her and winked.

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.