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Quotes About Medium

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
~ Daniel Clowes
Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
~ Frank Darabont
I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.
~ Jamie Bell
Change a man's opinions and his nature will soon learn to express itself through the new medium.
~ Maurice Samuel
I took to cinema because I found cinema was the medium for what I wanted to say through 'Shutter;' it was something beyond the scope of a play.
~ Joy Mathew
I've always believed in the power of rational thinking and behavior as the savior of the world, and science fiction as a powerful medium to encourage that, which explains my signature line, 'Let's save the world through science fiction.'
~ James Gunn
Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
~ Emil Ferris
All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.
~ R. Madhavan
I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.
~ Rob McClure
Billy, you got that there barbecue ready yet, boy?" "Yes, sir. Coals are hot and gray. You wanted them gray, didn't you, Cookie?" "What color gray?" There was a pause. "Sort of medium." "Huh." Cookie closed the back door and grinned at Zane. "I screw with him because he makes it so easy.
~ Susan Mallery
I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
~ Josh Hutcherson
All human language could be determined through this medium, which could not be expressed in any human language, and that was its perfection. The more a thing was clicked, the more perfect that thing would be. We would equate ourselves with that.
~ Joshua Cohen
Sin embargo una convicción caprichosa me ha acompañado desde siempre: la de que Shakespeare era en realidad un novelista que no había encontrado su medio
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
medium is any person who serves as a conduit to the spirits. It is a relatively general term. Various techniques exist. Mediums may or may not be shamans or engage in ritual possession. Some deliver messages in trance, others while completely awake and conscious. Mediums may use tools such as divination devices, automatic writing, or planchettes. A person presiding over a séance is called a medium.
~ Judika Illes
Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.
~ Elizabeth Debicki
I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.
~ Martha Hunt
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.
~ Serj Tankian
What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
~ Alicia Silverstone
Medium is like the Instagram of the corporate world. It's the layer that we want everybody to see, but not actually how it is. It feels like content marketing.
~ Jack Conte
We have always said that over the medium and long term, we will disinvest some part of our holding in our major subsidiary companies, and life insurance is our largest subsidiary company.
~ Chanda Kochhar
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
~ Peter Morgan
I'm just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it's far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It's not just an art form; it's actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It's my way of telling a story.
~ Federico Fellini
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
~ Felix Frankfurter