Quotes About Observation

I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Growing up, I felt a little bit invisible.

Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

Ingrid Bergman in 'Journey to Italy' just goes off and looks at things for most of the film.

I didnt see a lot of Alan Knott but from what I have seen of footage, he must have been amazing. Jack Russell just had beautiful hands. Class. But I cannot imagine anyone doing anything better than Ian Healy.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

'Bloodlight and Bami' is all verite. The director Sophie Fiennes began filming Ms. Jones in the mid-2000s and simply observes her on stage and off. She follows her home to Jamaica, where the diva mellows, almost unconsciously, into a daughter, sister, and parishioner.

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

I watched Japanese style wrestling, European style wrestling, and WCW.

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

I hung around with Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton. I knew not to match them for drinks.

Living my early years in Ludhiana, the Halwara base of the Indian Air Force was very close to our house. I would see jets cruise over my head.

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it's like getting a Ph.D. in acting.

When I was playing Jimmy White in those finals, I could tell when he was under pressure.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

My cousin is Johnny Nash, 'I Can See Clearly Now' Johnny Nash. So I know what to do just by watching what he did. He had a brilliant career. He wrote one of the biggest songs in music history.

I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.