Garrett Hardin Quotes

One picture is worth a thousand words.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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

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.

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.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

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

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

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?'

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

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.

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

A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

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

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.