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I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.
I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.
I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.
Music doesn't have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that's more visual.
There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.
I don't want to do transformations on people for the sake of a visual. I want to do it because it makes sense.
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.
When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
My overall plan for Instagram is to continue to create a tool that will inspire people to use their visual voice.
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
When The Temptations began, we wanted to be visual. So we did our own choreography and developed our own uniforms.
Most of the theatre work that you see in India is very verbose and the visual is whatever you can create on stage.
I'm not a visual guy. I'm audio. I'm a musician. I know what I do. I play guitar, and in my category I'm doing O.K.
Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't play a wheelchair user.
I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.
Over the years, advertising had become very lazy, very visual. Visuals are important, yes, but as a part of the story.
It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.
Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.
I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.
I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.
I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.
Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.
With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.
I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.