Viewer Quotes

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'

Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.

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.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.