Jonathan Mostow Quotes

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part.

My face is my passport.

I will know him by his eyes.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

I guess I've always had a similar-looking face.

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

You can't escape your face.

I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the grocery store and nobody will recognize me. Even in my glasses, looking exactly like my picture, nobody will recognize me. But I could be totally clean-shaven, hat on, looking nothing like myself in a computer store, and they're like, "Snowden?!"

THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.

The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes."

And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.