Michael Snow famous quotes

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.
-- Michael Snow

#Portraits #Done #Might

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
-- Michael Snow

#Lenses #Aperture #Intensity

If you think too much in the music you are too late.
-- Michael Snow

#Thinking #Too Late #Too Much

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.
-- Michael Snow

#Running #Challenges #Stuff

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
-- Michael Snow

#Quality #Mediums #Particular

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?
-- Michael Snow

#People #Sometimes #Knows

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.
-- Michael Snow

#Acceptance #Chance #Film

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.
-- Michael Snow

#Photography #Art #Depth

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.
-- Michael Snow

#Real #Want #Physical Things

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.
-- Michael Snow

#People #Tough #Used

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.
-- Michael Snow

#People #Giving #Mouths

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.
-- Michael Snow

#Ideas #Instruments

I try to make each film a different film.
-- Michael Snow

#Trying #Different #Film

I don't watch a lot of reality TV.
-- Michael Snow

#Reality #Watches #Tvs

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.
-- Michael Snow

#Way #Consciousness #Speed

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.
-- Michael Snow

#Fighting #Kind #Film

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.
-- Michael Snow

#Piano #Trying #Monsters

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).
-- Michael Snow

#Individuality #Sound #Variation

Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.
-- Michael Snow

#Strong #Thinking #People

You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.
-- Michael Snow

#Discovery #Painting #Speed

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.
-- Michael Snow

#Names #Littles #Irritated

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.
-- Michael Snow

#People #Different #Sometimes

People's vocabulary has expanded.
-- Michael Snow

#Vocabulary #People

We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.
-- Michael Snow

#Negative #Culture #Records

I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.
-- Michael Snow

#Strong #Decision #Attention

I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.
-- Michael Snow

#Special #Trying #Way