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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! -- Gene Wilder
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. -- Ray Harryhausen
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. -- Steven Moffat
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement. -- Jim Lee
It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too. -- Imogen Poots
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today. -- Aaron Ruell
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. -- Matthew Modine
I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound. -- Andrew Lau
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise. -- Guy Pearce
I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. -- Adria Petty
There's so much more work that goes into developing a makeup line than one would imagine. Personally, I like to be involved in the entire creative process - everything from art direction, collection concepts, formula testing, packaging artwork, to naming the shades and also the marketing side of things. -- Kat Von D
Generally, I move in the direction of art. -- Michael Keaton
Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it. -- Terry Teachout
The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based. -- Kaskade
I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction. -- Chang-Rae Lee
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? -- William S. Burroughs
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different. -- Antony Gormley
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. -- Laurence Housman
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information. -- Philip Treacy
Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction. -- Jill Greenberg
The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic. -- Tim Minear
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. -- John Burroughs
I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point. -- George Bellows
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show. -- Vsevolod Meyerhold
Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do. -- Brian Chippendale
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. -- Alexander Pope
I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate. -- Zhang Xiaogang

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