Quotes About Observation

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

I like to know where the camera is.

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

I'm such a believer in going to set, even when you're not working, because I think the best things to be learned, you don't necessarily get from your own scene or from someone speaking to you and telling you advice. I think it's all about watching and just taking it all in. It's not even when the cameras are rolling, necessarily.

I think when the cameras are on him is when Coach Switzer is at his best.

I want to be behind the scenes, and learn more. What cameras to use, what lenses to use, what shots I want to get. And it takes time, so being on movies and sets, I just learn.

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

I think living things can recognize the movement of other living things, and all the best animators in the world can't quite capture that something.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

Wladimir, the Klitschkos, they're amazing. I like to watch them fight, especially Wladimir, but it's kind of boring. They are really good at what they do, but they are very careful.

You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

I have a cat and a dog. They don't really get along, but I think they get along when no one is looking.