Quotes About Observation

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

I learnt to do bicycle kicks watching Robinho on the television.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

One thing everyone kind of found out about me was that my nostrils are heart-shaped. I'm not kidding you, they're heart-shaped.

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

There are all kinds of people who I watch and marvel at. Just so many. I'll watch something and go, 'Could I ever have done that?'

When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

I never saw my parents kiss.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

You use marketing to see what an audience's first impression is because that is something you can never really know yourself until you see it.

You gain know-how from playing matches because every moment of a football match has its own rhythm.

There's a lot of things I can get better at as an individual, knowing where defenders are, having a better awareness. Those are things I can work on.

It is a knowledgeable crowd at Old Trafford and they will also tell you when you are not bowling well.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

Your country becomes funnier the further you are from it. I remember seeing Boris Johnson on the news when I was in Hong Kong, and he looked so much more ridiculous.

I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.

I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion.