Quotes About Observation

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

I try not to have nerves. You have to be cold-blooded. You have to think, to look at the goalkeeper: how is he positioned? You study them, you know about them, even if there isn't always time, even if it's sometimes intuition. You look to see where he is.

People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

I'll never forget seeing 'Guys and Dolls' over and over. I used to sit up in the coliseum watching this magnificent musical. Brilliant.

Thanks to my new job, I got a front row seat. I crossed the country covering the race, first between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and then between Obama and McCain. It was the political story of a lifetime.

I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.

I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.

My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.

I like being outside and seeing a lot of new things.

Whenever you go to different countries, you learn new things and gather experience.

A responsive crowd is great - they help you see new things in your comedy.

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.