Visual Quotes

“Of all our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.”

“You want to create a sound that is the musical equivalent of the film's visual style.”

“It's all about the pictures. The words are just the filler.”

“My movies are very visual. I'm not a dialogue director.”

“If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.”

“I'm not a great believer in a lot of dialogue. I think that pictures are what it's all about.”

“Film is a visual medium. You have to show, not tell.”

“I'm very visually driven. I see the world in pictures.”

“For me, the visual part of the story is as important as the script.”

“A lot of our jokes were visual. You could watch the movie with the sound off and still laugh.”

“For me, the visual aspect has always been as important as the audio.”

“It is the images that will be remembered, not the plots.”

“I think that the image and the emotion are inseparable.”

“The purpose of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.”

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera.”

“The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.”

“The visual side of the band is just as important as the music.”

“A film is a series of images, and it's the images that tell the story.”

“I'm interested in the way that power is articulated through the visual.”