--- title: "1 Camera Way Quotes By Bill Viola" description: "1 Camera Way quotes by Bill Viola. Plus more from Bill Viola and more Camera Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99f/bill-viola-14184_always_you-can-always-tell-in-a-movie-when-they_2110886.jpg" --- > [You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/you-can-always-tell-in-a-movie-when-they-are-setting-you-up-for/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99f/bill-viola-14184_always_you-can-always-tell-in-a-movie-when-they_2110886.jpg) ## More by Bill Viola > [Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/because-we-live-in-an-industrialized-fast-paced-world-that-prefers/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/i-hope-we-ll-be-able-to-see-that-in-our-lifetime-the-end-of-the/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/there-s-another-world-out-there-just-beyond-the-world-we-re-in-it-s/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/when-you-re-making-video-you-re-giving-structure-to-time-which-is/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/in-the-mid-to-late-60s-to-the-mid-70s-when-i-was-a-student-there-was/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/the-human-brain-is-probably-one-of-the-most-complex-single-objects-on/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/video-artists-being-at-the-low-end-of-the-totem-pole-economically-one/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/i-spend-a-lot-of-time-writing-i-get-inspiration-from-texts-rather/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/the-future-art-historians-are-going-to-be-software-guys-who-are-going/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/art-is-for-me-the-process-of-trying-to-wake-up-the-soul-because-we/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/in-the-1970s-a-lot-of-critics-didn-t-understand-video-i-got-a-lot-of/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/this-thing-called-the-camera-that-takes-everything-in-equally-taught/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/i-cry-a-lot-usually-once-a-day-i-think-it-s-one-of-the-most-profound/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/you-are-just-as-qualified-as-any-expert-to-make-a-judgment-and-have-a/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) > [If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-viola/if-you-look-at-landscape-in-historical-terms-you-realize-that-most-of/) [Bill Viola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-viola/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera-way/bill-viola/#itemlist", "name": "1 Camera Way Quotes By Bill Viola", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. 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