Shania Twain Quotes

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

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

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.

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

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.

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

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

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

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

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

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.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

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.

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.

You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

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

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

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.

I'm a one-uniform kind of person; I like to establish the look of a character and just stick with that - like a cartoon.

People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.