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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.