Henry Ossawa Tanner Quotes

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I wanted to give the people a good show.

The future of politics is performance.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is

The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.

In a film, I can show you the beach, the sunset, the roads, while in a play you have to imagine all that.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

There's nothing like a event at The Garden.

Playing in Japan for thousands of people was like playing on the moon.

We're gonna give you a great show.

I come from L.A. where there's a sense of show. But that's not a bad word in my mind. We say art 'show,' don't we? 'Show' implies entertainment.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

I like to make something different and interesting.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.