Jimmy Lai Quotes

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

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

I love to be in the entertainment space, and my aim is to create new content and entertain people, whether it's in movies or on TV.

No one ever questions where all these pictures in magazines and books come from.

TV is really fun because there are so many different things you can play with; you can tell a story in a really, really rich way.

That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.