Captivating Imagery Quotes

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I grew up in Asia, and I remember as a little kid being in Taiwan watching films there and being so awed by these new worlds of entertainment.

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as many people as possible.

There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

I get really excited when I see filmmakers make something that is subtle and feels real. It is really tough to do right.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this other place, or, in the case of an illustration, I felt like I could walk into the page.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart - this, you realize with a gasp of joy, is what movies can do.

How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.

The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.

Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

One of the interesting things about making a kids TV show is that you are in living rooms all across the world and you never know who's watching.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.