Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.

What's great is that each medium has a unique set of things that it does and does well. Film is a visual medium, and obviously, you can't fit a whole book into two hours unless you're really economical about it. Obviously, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and on some level, it's sort of true.

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.

Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining a certain standard that does the trick.

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

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

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

Film is anti-language.