Visual Skill Quotes

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

I am not a visual innovator.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.

I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.