Spectators Quotes - Page 13

• Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Actors, Able, Wonder

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• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

  Lisa Langseth

  Purpose, Answers, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story. The film has been extremely well received around the world. It keeps on going around, opening in different markets, and connecting with the audience. In Argentina it was seen by over 450, 000 spectators, which is way more than anything we could have imagined.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Thinking, Doctors, Historical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

  Henri Matisse

  Eye, Expression, Imagination

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• I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

  John Lennon

  Sadness, Stupidity, Tears

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• While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no invisible boss in the brain, no central meaner, no unitary self in command of our activities and utterances. There's no internal spectator of a Cartesian theater in our heads to applaud the march of consciousness across its stage.

  Daniel Dennett

  Self, Boss, Brain

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• It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator.

  Henry Miller

  Drama, Paris, People

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

  Adam Smith

  Fall, Passion, Empathy

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.22, Imprint Academic

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• I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom."

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Silence, Departure, Might

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• As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

  Barbara Bush

  Husband, Golf, Two

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• I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them.

  Trina Gulliver

  Player, Thinking, Important

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• You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Enemy, Done, Silent

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.73, New Directions Publishing

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• I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Passion, Loss, Gambling

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• At festivals there's always one spectator from Egypt who says, 'I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.' I get a lot of reaction from the Arab world at fests. But the percentage of people from the Arab world who like it should be the same as anywhere else.

  Eran Kolirin

  Egypt, People, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

  Patrice Leconte

  Able, Taste, Comedy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

  Bruno Dumont

  Thinking, Suspense, Cinema

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

  Bruno Dumont

  Narrative, Quiet, Assumption

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.

  Marge Piercy

  Kids, People, Type

  "Fighting Words". Interview with Johnette Rodriguez, margepiercy.com. September 27, 2002.

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• I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

  John Ford

  Simple, Directors, Film

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• So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

  Rene Descartes

  World, Theater, Stage

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• Everything that I spent my entire life dedicated to, which is this art of mentalism, of magic... I don't see it and feel it and experience it like I first did when I was getting involved in this art. I try to look at it as a spectator but unless I get amnesia I still can't overlook that. I can appreciate the performance but I would love to be fooled.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Appreciate, Magic

  "Criss Angel Creates Phenomenon!". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 14, 2007.

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• In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Eye, Hands, Important

  "Andy Goldsworthy Goes Into The Wind". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• I have always been interested in crafting films that use long, static urban landscape shots as a way of manipulating the emotions of the viewer and forcing them to slow down, which I think simultaneously makes them more vulnerable as spectators, and also puts them in a position of being more than just spectators.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Long, Use

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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