Quotes About Medium

Theatre is a more difficult visual medium than films. You need to hold the attention span of the audience without goofing up and be able to express yourself as vividly as possible.

The vocabulary of film is camera cuts, it's how they communicate. But games are different. We don't really need to do that. We do it because it's a language that we're familiar with.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Live-action films are very much a director's medium, and that director is going to be a very strong voice, a stronger individual voice than you'd have in animation.

To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.

I love the podcast medium. I really like the intimacy of it. You're just listening to voices in your ears.

I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

When we express our thought in words, the medium is not found easily. There must be a process of translation, which is often inexact, and then we fall into error. But

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

Television is a huge medium and the best way to popularize yourself.

I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.

Not all stories are meant for the big screen.