I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.
In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.
If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.
I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.
I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks, there were always crows, particularly at certain times of the year. And they're very aggressive, very visible and loud. They're not at all likable, but they have to be dealt with. They are part of the picture, the art in the morning. You cannot deny their reality.
We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
People are going to always have their opinions whether you date a black man or not. I've had girlfriends, family members comment on black men that I've dated as well as white people. People want to see what they want to see. And if anybody doesn't fit that picture they're going to be like, 'Yeah, I didn't see you with him. '
I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.
The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That's what works in this digital age.
All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture.