Slow Motion Quotations

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

A lot of things look cooler in slow motion. Eating isn't one of them.

When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won.

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Life is death in slow motion.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.