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Quotes About Medium

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.
~ Stephen King
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
~ Edna Ferber
All the thoughts that drive you are created in a spaceless and timeless medium. Connect to your innerself now!
~ Vishwanath S J
In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.
~ John Marmysz
Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.
~ Robert Pinsky
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
~ Seamus Heaney
I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.
~ Frederick Lenz
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.
~ Peter Block
Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.
~ Lenore Kandel
I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.
~ Doug Liman
I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium.
~ Jimmi Simpson
Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.
~ JT Sanz
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
~ Stanley Kubrick
The comic strip is no longer the comic strip, but in reality an illustrated novel. It is new and raw in form just now, but material for limitless intelligent development. And eventually and inevitably it will a legitimate medium for the best writers and artists. It is already the embryo of a new art form.
~ Will Eisner
Now, Christian, keep the plains and thou art safe. It is plain, we are not to make election a ground for our faith, but our faith and calling a medium or argument to prove our election.
~ William Gurnall
He had the idea, which he could see confirmed in the evidence of electrochemistry, that when two electrically charged bodies influence each other the effect depends not only on the charge itself but also on the medium between the two bodies. He designed a device called a "capacitor" in modern terminology. It consisted of two concentric brass spheres separated electrically by shellac insulation.
~ William H. Cropper
The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine.
~ William Hazlitt
Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important" -John Carmack
~ David Kushner
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
~ David Lynch
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
~ Rudy Rucker
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
~ Michael Arndt
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.
~ David Puttnam
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
~ Michael Arndt
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith