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The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
Men watch. Women watch themselves being watched.
When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.
Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.
She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are.
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts
What are you watching?" he asked them. "Shhhh," Maggie said. Delia said, "They're watching a good looking man working on a home improvement project without being nagged into it." "It's like our porn," Hannah said,
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
Choose your audience...
My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.
I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.
Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.
If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.
Watching. Watching with those piercing, clit licking blue eyes.
I prefer doing over watching.
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
You can see a lot just by observing.
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.
Art is first a seeing and then a revealing
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.
remote viewing is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object, or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information.
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
People see what they want to see.People-- John Green
The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.
What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
Observe perpetually!
[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.
Part of the way that I work is to observe.
can perceive. Television is coming to
the spectacle is an affirmation of appearances and an identification of all human social life with appearances. But a critique that grasps the spectacle's essential character reveals it to be a visible negation of life - a negation that has taken on a visible form.
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!
Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.
I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.
what they had seen,-- Jodi Picoult
Habits of everyday life are lost when traveling around the world; the stimulus of seeing occurs persistently in the foreground.
You see, but you do not observe.
Another of the older views, and they are simply read out
People are attracted to vision. The
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
The true seeing is when there is no seeing.
Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.
Sometimes I look at my own movies
I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?
Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it's easy to excite them; it's easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement - another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name.
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.
Who watches the watchmen?
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see
everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.
The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.
Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.
How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.
I can see close up and my husband can see far away, so we're covered. He tells me who's in the movie and I tell him what's in his sandwich. Together we're human bifocals.
The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.
To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience.
You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.
Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed!
There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.
All my good movies, nobody sees.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
Sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.
Film brings people together.
Those who love most, see most.
For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.
In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.
I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
I watch people constantly.
People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]
People are watching us again." "Good. Beautiful things should be watched. They shine.
The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.
I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.