Robert Krulwich Quotes

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

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

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

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

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

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

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.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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.

Image is an international language.

The style depends on the subject.

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.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

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 think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

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.

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.

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

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.