We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of professionals. We valued it for what it could tell us about the details of people's daily lives.
On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.
Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.
It's about paying attention to the little things, the details. . . Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.
God is in the details.
It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.
Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.
It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.
I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.