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Quotes About Medium

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
~ Alan Moore
My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.
~ Charlton Heston
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
~ Don Cheadle
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
~ James Gleick
[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.
~ Tina Fey
Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because it was so hands-on and physical in a way that I really liked.
~ Kirsten Lepore
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
~ Marshall McLuhan
There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.
~ Mitchell Hurwitz
In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.
~ Marshall McLuhan
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.
~ Marshall McLuhan
One conclusion which emerged from this imaginary operation was that all changes in electric and magnetic force (for instance, those caused by an oscillating circuit) sent waves spreading through space; and that these waves had the same transverse character, and the same speed, as light. 'We can scarcely avoid the inference', he wrote in a monumental sentence, 'that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
~ Arthur Koestler
Is a connected medium the same as a compassionate one? I don't think so.
~ Jon Katz
If there is such a thing as media theory, there should also be format theory. Writers have too often collapsed discussions of format into their analyses of what is important about a given medium. Format denotes a whole range of decisions that affect the look, feel, experience, and workings of a medium. It
~ Jonathan Sterne
Men come in three sizes: small, medium, and extremely fucked up.
~ Eric Idle
Another vital factor was the development of a leadership style and set of cooperative customs that could allow developers to attract co-developers and get maximum leverage out of the medium.
~ Eric S. Raymond
Acting is a tool for freedom of expression and choice, a mirror of possibility for humankind. Acting is a powerful medium for reflecting authenticity in the human experience.
~ Eric Stone
She got me logged in, which was a suspicous amount of help and attention from a Detective Inspector, and explained the priority codes to me. 'Officially, low means we want it within a week,' said Stephanopoulos. 'Medium is five days and high priority is three.' 'And really?' I asked. 'Today, now and 'I want it bloody yesterday.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
~ David Ogilvy
We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
~ Win Butler
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry, it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry - a lot of the lyrics I love.
~ David Longstreth
I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.
~ Brian J. White
Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.
~ Joe Carnahan