Image-based Quotes

I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.

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 see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.