Bill Viola Quotes

The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1951

Topics

MomentCreativeMeStandYouDone

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

Joan Jett

MusicGreatThinkBornNowOut

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

Jessica Hecht

FamilyTimePeopleMeCalmThink

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

John Logan

TimeJobSundayDialogueKnewSort

If you don't want to part with belongings but still want to monetize them, then you can rent them out.

John Rampton

YouWantRentOutStillPart

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

Sophie Marceau

YouNobodySometimesDirectorTurn

I am an early riser.

Sue Hubbell

I AmEarlyAm

I have great hair because I take a lot of vitamins.

Rosie Perez

GreatHairVitaminsTakeBecause

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Mike Nichols

FamilyLoveFoodJoyMeShort

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

Michael Moore

MeGoSpinningWellLikeMidwest

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Jonathan Galassi

LifeYouBackNewResourcesStage

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

JobPeopleWantPresidentCapable

My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.

Chord Overstreet

RoadsMeTruckDriveBackOld

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