Viewer Quotes

196 quotes by 172 authors

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back… — Joe Bradley
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style. — Alain Resnais
The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a… — Jonathan Nolan
The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy… — Mario Batali
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our… — Saul Bellow
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on… — Alan Dershowitz
All movies assault the viewer in one way or another. — Michael Haneke
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… — Michael Haneke
I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer. — Lawrence Kasdan
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. — Jeff Koons
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… — Jerry Lewis
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. — David Lynch
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered. — Seth MacFarlane
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… — Kevin O'Leary
I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so… — Apolo Ohno
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My… — Jane Pauley
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. — Steven Pinker
I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the… — Jason Reitman
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves:… — Jerry Saltz
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to… — Jerry Saltz

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