Literal – Page 2

Departure from the literal

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability. Edgar Alwin Payne

What’s cool is that in the story of the movie [The Hangover] our characters are also really kind of getting to know each other and bonding over the course of the movie. And I think you’re seeing a real, a literal sort of friendship growing both in us as actors and on screen as characters. … Read more

Men aren\’t really complicated.

Men aren’t really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they’ve said, when really it’s obvious. E. L. James

Movies are too literal.

Movies are too literal. E. L. Doctorow

Though beauty is, with

Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, … Read more

There\’s a literal track:

There’s a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there’s the abstract track: what ideas are suggested by the literal. And the real movie takes place in the relationship between the literal and the abstract. Frederick Wiseman

Concerning the prayer that

Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: \”These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two … Read more

Emotionally, I was affected

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me. Fred Durst

Abstraction didn\’t have to

Abstraction didn’t have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn’t be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and … Read more

When I was a

When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this. Frank Schaeffer