Viewers Quotes - Page 13

• Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Inspiration, Museums

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• This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

  Dorothea Lange

  Looks, Benefits, Quiet

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• The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

  Agnieszka Holland

  Player, Voice, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Games, Expectations, Facts

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest.

  Omar Zuniga

  Teenager, Downtown, Afternoon

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.

  Alante Kavaite

  Mistake, Appreciate, Bait

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have always been interested in crafting films that use long, static urban landscape shots as a way of manipulating the emotions of the viewer and forcing them to slow down, which I think simultaneously makes them more vulnerable as spectators, and also puts them in a position of being more than just spectators.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Long, Use

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• ather than Eisenstein's fast and hard cutting, I like to hold the shot very still and for longer than we're accustomed to. For me personally as a viewer, this technique invariably causes me to have waves of emotions that I think arise from a profound form of mindful awareness and the feelings that go along with that. I am frequently brought to tears by this kind of existential cinematic technique.

  Jenni Olson

  Cutting, Thinking, Profound

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

  Fred Ritchin

  Needs, Attention, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for.

  Jessica Biel

  Character, Careers, Borders

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• At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

  Julia Bacha

  Powerful, Heart, Successful

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• I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Writing, Imagine, Careful

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

  Robert Longo

  Artist, Intention, Subjective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

  Walker Percy

  Art, Communication, Feelings

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• I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

  Charlie Brooker

  Hate, Technology, Men

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I think three debates is good. I think it should be on a night where viewers are going to be able to watch.

  Donald Trump

  Night, Thinking, Watches

  "Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words". Interview with Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

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• As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Character, Character Change

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Character, Reality

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

  Sam Branson

  Army, Media, Hands

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• One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.

  Park Dietz

  Mistake, Home, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Fake, Angle, Shots

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Reflection, Men, Mirrors

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Because there are so many factors when considering the potential impacts of GMOs on our health and environment, we wanted to make a film that could unpack complex subject matter, while taking the audience on an entertaining ride. It is a very powerful tool because it allows viewers to understand the nature of these very complicated issues in a digestible format, and then hopefully engage in a dialogue about them in their respective homes and communities.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Powerful, Home, Gmos

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm grateful for the people who watch everyday because if the viewers don't tune in, I don't have a job and I know that.

  Ainsley Earhardt

  Jobs, Grateful, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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