Michael Snow Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

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

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

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

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.

People's vocabulary has expanded.

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

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.

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

I don't watch a lot of reality TV.

I try to make each film a different film.

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

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

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

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

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