perception Quotes

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

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.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.