- Nov 07, 2020
Picture Quotes
On screen roles, old movies, and the camera's eye.
Here the word picture mostly means film - an actor discussing how to play a villain convincingly, and a childhood movie memory vivid enough to cause literal nightmares for years. Related viewing continues in Life.
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- Trying
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020