Quotes About Medium

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

The medium is the message, the message is encrypted, and the encryption key is controlled by NSA.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

The businessmen wondered if they could create such individuals not from the accidents of news events but from the deliberate manufactures of their own medium.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water

I am aware that a man of real merit is never seen in so favorable a light as seen through the medium of adversity.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

digitality entails a basic distinction, whether zeros and ones or some other set of discrete units—the four nucleobases of the genetic code or the twenty-six letters of the alphabet are just as digital as the base-two numeric encoding used in binary computers. Any digital medium will have a bed of genetically distinct elements. These elements form a homogeneous substrate from which constructions are built.

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.

In television, the cuts are so quick: bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! I want to shoot two people and sit there for eight minutes and watch them. I've got a lot to learn about television and about the best ways to tell stories directorially in that medium.

'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.

I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music - to new music or old music. It's a great platform where you've got people's ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can.

So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be layered and non-literal.

A lot of the people that I read have never had a medium experience before - it's comforting.

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

What other people are adapting from the comics medium, I watch with as much interest as I do any other movies. Because I'm a fan, and I want to see what other people are doing in the world.