Deborah Ann Woll Quotes

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.