perception Quotes

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.