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Quotes About Medium

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.
~ Ram Gopal Varma
My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
~ Gavin Hood
Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.
~ Joe Dempsie
The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
~ Oliver Platt
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
~ Richard Russo
I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true, but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
After we're finished, we should try something simpler," I said to him one day. "We could move our families to Hawaii and open a smoothie stand on the beach." "Smoothies are too complicated," Rahm said. "We'll sell T-shirts. But just white T-shirts. In medium. That's it—no other colors or patterns or sizes. We don't want to have to make any decisions. If customers want something different, they can go someplace else.
~ Barack Obama
Whatever happens to science fiction, it would not exist at all if it had not been given a name and a medium for this, if we are not led to praise Gernsbeck, we must entomb him with honor. He was a crook, old Hugo, but he made all of us crooks possible.
~ Barry N. Malzberg
The Web has explored the adjacent possible of its medium far faster than any other communications technology in history.
~ Steven Johnson
Carbon may be a talented connector, but without a medium that allows it to collide randomly with other elements, those connective powers are likely to go to waste. All
~ Steven Johnson
The combination of water's fluidity and solubility makes it marvelously adept at creating new networks of elements, as they churn through the ever-shifting medium, colliding with each other in unpredictable ways. At the same time, the strength of the hydrogen bonds means that new combinations with some stability to them—many of them anchored around carbon atoms—can endure and seek out additional connections in the soup.
~ Steven Johnson
language is above all a medium in which we express our thoughts and feelings, and it mustn't be confused with the thoughts and feelings themselves.
~ Steven Pinker
Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.
~ Josh Radnor
I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.
~ Neil Strauss
As the sacramental sign is the inanimate medium of grace, 16 so the minister is its animate instrument in the hands of Christ.
~ Joseph Pohle
Christ, in whom godhead and manhood are so inti mately united, is as it were a living Sacrament — the personal and visible embodiment of uncreated grace. Similarly His Church, as the mystical image of the Hypostatic Union, is the visible medium of supernatural life, and therefore preeminently a sacramental institu tion.
~ Joseph Pohle
There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds."
~ Ernie Kovacs
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
~ Ernie Kovacs
Television is often called a medium because it's neither rare, nor well done.
~ Ernie Kovacs
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare not well done.
~ Ernie Kovacs
I really wish that 'Angrezi Medium' would have released a little earlier or little after - at least, we would have had a proper release. The movie was taken down after one day of release. It is such a beautiful film and Irrfan Khan hasn't done a film in a long time, given his health conditions.
~ Kiku Sharda
When I am searching for a character, I leave myself open, as does a medium. And I think that sometimes you can be inhabited by the spirit of someone who lived at some time or who was a bit like the person you are doing. And maybe they come in and use you as a chance to relive again.
~ Peter Sellers