Viewer Quotes
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For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.
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A painter is somebody who sees. I paint the moment when I set out. When I set out to see. And it’s the same thing for the viewer. When he approaches the canvas, he is advancing towards an encounter. The encounter with vision.
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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.
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As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.
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The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
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Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.
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I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.
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My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.
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Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.
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Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
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But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
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Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.
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A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
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There must be an open space in the paintings – an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.
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At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
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I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.
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The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.
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There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.
