Quotes on the topic: Imagery


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I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.


I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.


We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.


We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.


Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.


'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.


All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.


I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.


I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.


I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.


When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.


It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.


When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.


If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?


One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.


What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.


I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.


I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.


When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'


I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.