M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.

We're pretty insane about art direction.

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

Our style, in one word, the Image guys, our approach to the page was bold.

While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.