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I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.
I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.
I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.
A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.
I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.
Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
I've been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive.
Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
Maybe 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' didn't have a lot of visual effects in it, but most movies have some sort of visual effects.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in.
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.
My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.
I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
The more you have in your toolbox, if you can visualize or have a moment to provide you a visual, as an actor, that's paramount.
I use the aid of technology while running through songs. Visual tuners and feeling the vibrations through the floor to keep time.
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.
We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.
Music is more than words. It's a visual experience, too, and people really feel my music because of the way I move and put on a show.
I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
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.
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the camera.
The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.