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The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. -- Eliot Engel
I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.' -- Dan Gilroy
My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.' -- Anne Sweeney
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. -- Steven Pinker
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. -- Ansel Adams
As a businessman, my dharma is to cater to every taste of my viewer. -- Subhash Chandra
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. -- Anish Kapoor
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. -- David Lynch
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told. -- Cindy Sherman
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. -- Rockwell Kent
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. -- Anish Kapoor
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. -- James Nachtwey
I love Vines. You make this 6.4-second drama, and you can reach 6 million viewer, and make people laugh. I find it so fabulous. -- Joan Rivers
Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer. -- Jeff Probst
It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer. -- Christopher Lee
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him. -- Michael Haneke
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer. -- Bill Cosby
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it. -- Anderson Cooper
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. -- William Albert Allard
I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer. -- Scott M. Gimple
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas. -- J. G. Ballard
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive. -- Jerry Saltz
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. -- James Wolcott
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction. -- Alan Dershowitz
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions. -- Jacques Audiard
I love TV as a viewer. -- Rose Byrne
It's the viewer that makes the work. -- Marcel Duchamp
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer. -- Jessica Savitch
The viewer brings all additional information to the image. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Tell the viewer something that they need to know. -- Kay WalkingStick
Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods. -- James Elkins
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. -- Fay Godwin
All movies assault the viewer in one way or another. -- Michael Haneke
Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more. -- Alexander Isley
My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter. -- Wolf Blitzer
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. -- Nigel Kneale
The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork. -- Olafur Eliasson
There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer -- Ansel Adams
Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you. -- Paul Schrader
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer. -- Damien Hirst
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me. -- Jim Hodges
If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either. -- Paul Strisik
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. -- Antoni Tapies
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. -- Nicholas Johnson
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture. -- Gregory Crewdson
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. -- Bill Jay
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. -- Arthur Smith
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else. -- Julian Schnabel
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself. -- Richard Serra
I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer. -- Bong Joon-ho
As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection. -- Ziggy Marley
An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience. -- Robert Longo
As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective. -- Casey Neistat
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. -- Mike White
In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense. -- David Giuntoli
The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one -- Saraha
I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias. -- Dan Abrams
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer -- Anish Kapoor
You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get. -- Marcia Gay Harden
I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. -- Tania Raymonde
The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four. -- Ernst Lubitsch
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see -- Leon Levinstein
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. -- Stephen Shore
I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around. -- Joseph Raffael
The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered. -- Seth MacFarlane
A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study. -- Thomas Kinkade
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered. -- Seth MacFarlane
I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film. -- Takashi Miike
I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls. -- David Shuster
As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is. -- Drew Goddard
Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit. -- Ken Danby
What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air. -- George Carlin
I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster. -- Ewan McGregor
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. -- Quentin Tarantino
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. -- Anthony Caro
Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before! -- Leonard Maltin
I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality. -- Olafur Eliasson
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style. -- Alain Resnais
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it. -- Dave Navarro
I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens. -- Craig Ferguson
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. -- Jeff Koons
I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end. -- Claude Lelouch
The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer. -- Leland Bell
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is. -- Alex Webb
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. -- Asghar Farhadi
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. -- Lee Siegel
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. -- Keith Carter
Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us. -- Peter Capaldi
For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance. -- Jonathan Franzen
As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator. -- Samantha Bee
The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city, -- Chris Burden
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me. -- Jeff Koons
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn. -- Guido Molinari
To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec. -- J. Michael Straczynski
As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change. -- Eckhart Tolle
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. -- Robert Genn
I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing. -- Sania Mirza
It`s always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer. -- Lizz Winstead
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. -- Christian Morgenstern
I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer. -- Wes Borland
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. -- Robert Breault
The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives. -- Antoni Tapies
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character. -- Ally Sheedy
I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people. -- Alexander Ludwig
My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at. -- Jean-Marc Bustamante
Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. -- Kiki Smith
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. -- Jeff Vandermeer
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. -- James Nachtwey
I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer. -- Lawrence Kasdan
It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that. -- Leonardo Drew
The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters. -- Eckhart Tolle
What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime. -- Martin Short
If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body. -- Charis Wilson
A lot of people don't like to eat on camera, but I eat on camera all the time. I'm standing in for the viewer. -- Rick Bayless
The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you. -- Terry Bradshaw
The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players. -- Agnieszka Holland

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