Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When we talk about violence, we`re talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don`t lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you`re photographing is people, bodies. You can`t really photograph an abst...
David Cronenberg
I`m sure you`ve heard that description, `Jimmy Stewart from Mars.` Yes. Because a part of him is really so sweet and pure and innocent. He`d tell me my take was `Jim-dandy`, or `Doggone it, Sherilyn, that was cool`. His direction is abstract. He doesn`t e...
Sherilyn Fenn
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.
Werner Herzog
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back to y...
Danny Elfman
You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.
David Cronenberg
I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me. All they...
Jim Jarmusch
(replying to a compliment on his articulation) I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves. Maybe it`s a middle-class British hang-up, but I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, ful...
Daniel Day-Lewis
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we`re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. And I think the mind isn`t conscious enough to go all the way to where we`re connected,...
David Lynch
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
Julie Taymor
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that`s when the silence comes closer; that`s when next isn`t the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Alain Vais
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Alexander Dumas
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
Aimee Litka
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn`t make abstract paintings.
Alex Costakis
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn`t make abstract paintings.
Alex Costakis
This song probably has the most memorable melody we`ve ever recorded. I really like how we`re using something so catchy to convey these abstract lyrical ideas I have about songwriting. When I sit down to write a song, I always feel like I`m wading into a ...
Anton Drel
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet`s abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle
