Quotes about Viewer

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. Votes: 3

I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.' Votes: 3

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.' Votes: 2

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. Votes: 2

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. Votes: 2

As a businessman, my dharma is to cater to every taste of my viewer. Votes: 2

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. Votes: 2

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. Votes: 2

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told. Votes: 2

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. Votes: 2

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. Votes: 2

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. Votes: 2

I love Vines. You make this 6.4-second drama, and you can reach 6 million viewer, and make people laugh. I find it so fabulous. Votes: 2

Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer. Votes: 2

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer. Votes: 2

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him. Votes: 2

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room. Votes: 2

I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer. Votes: 2

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience. Votes: 2

I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it. Votes: 2

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. Votes: 2

I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer. Votes: 2

Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. Votes: 2

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas. Votes: 2

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive. Votes: 2

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. Votes: 2

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction. Votes: 2

I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions. Votes: 2

I love TV as a viewer. Votes: 0

It's the viewer that makes the work. Votes: 0

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer. Votes: 0

The viewer brings all additional information to the image. Votes: 0

Tell the viewer something that they need to know. Votes: 0

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods. Votes: 0

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. Votes: 0

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another. Votes: 0

Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more. Votes: 0

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter. Votes: 0

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. Votes: 0

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork. Votes: 0

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer Votes: 0

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you. Votes: 0

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer. Votes: 0

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me. Votes: 0

If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either. Votes: 0

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. Votes: 0

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. Votes: 0

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture. Votes: 0

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. Votes: 0

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. Votes: 0

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else. Votes: 0

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself. Votes: 0

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer. Votes: 0

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection. Votes: 0

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience. Votes: 0

As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective. Votes: 0

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. Votes: 0

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense. Votes: 0

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one Votes: 0

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias. Votes: 0

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer Votes: 0

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get. Votes: 0

I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. Votes: 0

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four. Votes: 0

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see Votes: 0

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. Votes: 0

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around. Votes: 0

The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered. Votes: 0

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study. Votes: 0

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered. Votes: 0

I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film. Votes: 0

I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer. Votes: 0

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls. Votes: 0

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is. Votes: 0

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit. Votes: 0

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air. Votes: 0

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster. Votes: 0

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. Votes: 0

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. Votes: 0

Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before! Votes: 0

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality. Votes: 0

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style. Votes: 0

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it. Votes: 0

I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens. Votes: 0

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. Votes: 0

I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end. Votes: 0

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer. Votes: 0

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is. Votes: 0

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. Votes: 0

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. Votes: 0

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. Votes: 0

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us. Votes: 0

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance. Votes: 0

As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator. Votes: 0

The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city, Votes: 0

I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me. Votes: 0

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn. Votes: 0

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec. Votes: 0

As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change. Votes: 0

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. Votes: 0

I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing. Votes: 0

It`s always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer. Votes: 0

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer. Votes: 0

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. Votes: 0

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives. Votes: 0

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character. Votes: 0

I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people. Votes: 0

My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at. Votes: 0

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. Votes: 0

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. Votes: 0

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. Votes: 0

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer. Votes: 0

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that. Votes: 0

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters. Votes: 0

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime. Votes: 0

If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body. Votes: 0

A lot of people don't like to eat on camera, but I eat on camera all the time. I'm standing in for the viewer. Votes: 0

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you. Votes: 0

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players. Votes: 0

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four. Votes: 0

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic. Votes: 0

The artist's aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. Votes: 0

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor. Votes: 0

Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because itimplicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke andgetting the joke, respectively). Votes: 0

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing. Votes: 0

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want. Votes: 0

I don't think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen's head to explode. Votes: 0

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. Votes: 0

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT. Votes: 0

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer. Votes: 0

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist. Votes: 0

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space. Votes: 0

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. Votes: 0

We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News. Votes: 0

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence. Votes: 0

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions. Votes: 0

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view. Votes: 0

The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see. Votes: 0

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer. Votes: 0

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good. Votes: 0

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in. Votes: 0

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone. Votes: 0

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level. Votes: 0

We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits. Votes: 0

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing stand-up, it's inclusive. Votes: 0

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. Votes: 0

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image. Votes: 0

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers. Votes: 0

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it. Votes: 0

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite. Votes: 0

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language. Votes: 0

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault. Votes: 0

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different. Votes: 0

I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know. Votes: 0

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. Votes: 0

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object. Votes: 0

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong. Votes: 0

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. Votes: 0

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space. Votes: 0

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move. Votes: 0

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion. Votes: 0

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer. Votes: 0

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. Votes: 0

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state. Votes: 0

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it. Votes: 0

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger. Votes: 0

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience. Votes: 0

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. Votes: 0

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer. Votes: 0

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer. Votes: 0

How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience? Votes: 0

The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there. Votes: 0

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds. Votes: 0

Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported. Votes: 0

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener) Votes: 0

As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head. Votes: 0

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way. Votes: 0

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed. Votes: 0

What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level. Votes: 0

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind. Votes: 0

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible. Votes: 0

The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day. Votes: 0

I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result. Votes: 0

Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful! Votes: 0

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level. Votes: 0

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer. Votes: 0

Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line. Votes: 0

At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable. Votes: 0

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away. Votes: 0

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think. Votes: 0

A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me. Votes: 0

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net. Votes: 0

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it. Votes: 0

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable. Votes: 0

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment. Votes: 0

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet. Votes: 0

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas. Votes: 0

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. Votes: 0

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer. Votes: 0

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on. Votes: 0

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change. Votes: 0

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art. Votes: 0

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links. Votes: 0