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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school. -- Eva Green
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March. -- J Allard
Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before. -- Wes Anderson
All great art is a visual form of prayer. -- Wendy Beckett
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. -- Julia Morgan
I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. -- Temple Grandin
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. -- Orson Welles
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination -- Daphne Zuniga
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience. -- Steven Bochco
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. -- Arnold Newman
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. -- Walt Disney
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that. -- Dave Gahan
We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby. -- Paul P. Enns
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. -- Alfred Hitchcock
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem -- Marcel Duchamp
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine. -- Ansel Adams
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me. -- Roger Ebert
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. -- David Attenborough
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. -- Massimo Vignelli
Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death. -- Don Ed Hardy
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics. -- Fritjof Capra
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased. -- Odilon Redon
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being -- Helmut Gernsheim
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language. -- Philip K. Dick
Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. -- Dee Dee Ramone
It's a visual world and people respond to visuals. -- Joe Sacco
Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals. -- Maya Beiser
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. -- Maira Kalman
I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful. -- Charlotte Sullivan
Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up. -- David Chase
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is. -- Iggy Azalea
I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world. -- Rob Zombie
You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them. -- Cassandra Clare
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar. -- Josh Hartnett
You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing. -- Hans Zimmer
I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.' -- Anne Graham Lotz
Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and narration, this title weaves a story around the player as they explore different areas in the game. -- Rob Manuel
When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight. -- Tom Araya
When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create. -- Josh Hartnett
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. -- Graham Joyce
I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger. -- Tyga
It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' -- Tom Hardy
I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless. -- Harold Prince
The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality. -- Chris Hadfield
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better? -- Shekhar Kapur
I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create. -- Josh Hartnett
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful. -- Harold Prince
I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. -- Afrojack
I really have fun doing music for visuals and stuff. -- Mary Timony
I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other. -- Aleksa Palladino
The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals. -- Kelly Reichardt
My visuals are typically very powerful. The rhythm is fast. The cuts are fast. -- Andrew Lau
The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story. -- Don Hertzfeldt
The presidency has become a series of visuals I don't know how a woman fits into. -- Patricia Schroeder
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. -- Daphne Zuniga
When you think of a brand, you should immediately understand it from the advertising attitude, from the words and visuals. -- George Lois
If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that. -- Ryan Potter
I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown. -- Stella McCartney
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals. -- Gene Luen Yang
I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters. -- Roberta Williams
A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original. -- Julie Taymor
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it. -- Don Hertzfeldt
The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal. -- Robert Richardson
I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivated by, but music and visuals go hand in hand. -- Eliza Doolittle
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good. -- Julie Taymor
I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science. -- Lisa Randall
I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors. -- Alfonso Cuaron
I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound. There's not lyrics dictating what you should feel. -- TrentemÃ¸ller
I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist. -- Neill Blomkamp
Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument. -- Tim Hughes
Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue. -- Jonathan Tropper

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