Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

We are truly bombarded by images. To break through and be observed, let alone focused on, you have to have impact and power.

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

I love being able to tell a story visually. It's something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?

Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many kind of readings as people might want to make, as possible.