Quotes About Observation

At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important

It takes a long time to grow an old friend, and trust is built a single moment at a time. Women, she sometimes thought, had a tendency to see what they wanted to see

If you'd rather not answer, you don't have to, Miles offered. I'm sure it wouldn't change my impression of him, anyway. And what impression is that? I don't like him. Sarah laughed. Why do you say that? Because you don't like him. You're pretty perceptive.

she was struck again by the intensity of his gaze. She wasn't used to being scrutinized this way—on the contrary, she often felt virtually invisible as she went through the well-worn circuit of her daily routines.

You don't even know him -No, but I know you, and you were happy -What if he won't talk me? -He will -How do you know? -Because I was watching, and he was happy, too.

Actions - not thoughts or intentions - were the way to judge others.

She's a cautious one, he observed. Kiss her once, and she seemed to question it all. But allow her to lead, and the caution seemed to fade. He knew she was trying to figure him out, trying to match his story to the man she saw sitting across from her. But there was no mistaking the sympathy on her face the moment she realized how similar they were.

Beauty and earthy common sense were a rare combination, yet he doubted she was even aware she possessed it. By

He kept staring at you all night. For a moment there, I thought his eyes were attached to you by an invisible string.

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020.

I don't want to attract attention because I open my mouth.

I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

Seeing is in itself a movement.

I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed with the way they can do that - I don't think I could.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.

I bet it isn't easy to have each one of you moves overanalyzed.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.