If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
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.
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.
Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.
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.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.
If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?
I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.
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.
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.
