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Quotes About Medium

The job of the film director is to tell the story through the juxtaposition of uninflected images—because that is the essential nature of the medium.
~ David Mamet
In 'a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome,' as T.S. Eliot said of television, Good Ol' Charlie Brown could be king.
~ Unknown
Most e-mails sent in the mid-nineties tended to be long and letter-like: they began and ended with traditional greetings—the ones we'd all previously used on paper—and they were keen to describe the surrounding scene, as if the new medium had made of everybody a writer. ("I'm typing this just by the window, looking out to blue-gray sea, where three gulls are diving into the water.")
~ Zadie Smith
These designs came together very recently, and there's a haphazard, accidental quality to them. Resist the easy grooves they guide you into. If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that!
~ Zadie Smith
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
~ Katherine Dunn
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
~ Lisa See
I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time.
~ Unknown
I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.
~ Daniel Breaker
I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.
~ Megan Mullally
Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.
~ Matthew Vaughn
Video looks like reality, it's more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels like something made up.
~ Michael Mann
When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.
~ David Gerrold
Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there's a multitude of different endings.
~ Chris Milk
Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.
~ Tom Bissell
We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.
~ Jenova Chen
As an actor, you're just trying to get work in any medium. I remember when I started out, I did motion capture for video games, and then I did a terrible Best Buy commercial for Best Buy employees.
~ Sarah Goldberg
Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.
~ Erik Prince
The USA marketing team are geniuses at what they do. They do the right kind of thing for every medium. They're very active on social media; they're releasing videos every day up to the premiere.
~ Lennon Parham
Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly.
~ Kevin Systrom
Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.
~ Hiro Murai
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~ Unknown
Every potion has eight parts. One part is a base liquid to hold the others and provide a medium for mixing. Five parts are symbolically linked to each of the five senses. One is similarly linked to the mind, and another to the spirit. The basic ingredient to the stimulant potion was coffee, while the base for the scent-masking potion was water. I got them both to boiling.
~ Jim Butcher
Mort looked at the cat and sighed. "Oh, sure. Professional ectomancer with a national reputation as a medium tells you what's going on, and nobody believes him. But let a stump-tailed, furry critter come in and everyone goes all Lifetime." "Heh," said Sir Stuart, quietly amused. "What did I tell you? Cats.
~ Jim Butcher
You're going to lose that hand. - I was sending it back to the kitchen anyway. I ordered it medium well.
~ Jim Butcher