There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.
I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.
I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.
It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.
To do a Bond picture is a blessing but also a curse.
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.
Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.
Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.
For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.