Quotes About Observation

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Most people walk through life without ever noticing the little clues all around that something's not right." Another toilet lid crashed in front of them and Serge pulled a porcelain splinter from his arm. "In Florida, you just have to filter out the background weirdness.

Photography teaches me to be observant," said Serge. "Discipline. Becoming one with the environment so I don't miss even the smallest detail." A skunk ape crossed the road behind him.

You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much.

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and nature shows, and our own life experiences.

One thing that I really love about making records is that you can flow through fiction and non-fiction but, ultimately, everything's a commentary on real life in some way.

It's pretty draining, the amount of games I watch on a daily basis. It's pretty much non-stop.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I love keeping. I'm in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn't normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.