Quotes About Observation

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

I see Kathie Lee. She's not angry about anything. She's having the time of her life, and I really mean that, because I watch her carefully. I wonder, too, how she's feeling, you know, whether she misses - after all, it was 15 years getting up every morning and coming down and sitting there with me and doing the show together.

With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.

I just learn from other people's mistakes.

Boxing has been around for a while and there's a lot of great examples of what to do and what not to do. You can look at those examples and learn from other people's mistakes without having to go through it the hard way.

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it's just like with any martial art - you've got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students.

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.