Mediums Quotes - Page 16

• In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged to do in your imagination. You should use whatever you can and it's amazing how even if you change the medium, your work is still yours.

  Michelle Stuart

  Order, Ideas, Imagination

  "Michelle Stuart’s Mythologies". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

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• There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.

  Haskell Wexler

  Editing, Actors, Done

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it.

  Sherri Saum

  Grateful, Forever, Might

  Source: 411mania.com

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• It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.

  Alexander Chee

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

  Chris Hardwick

  Impact, May, Tvs

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.

  Julie Halston

  Moving, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.

  Judy Woodruff

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.

  Kevin Shields

  Real, Believe, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is of course daunting to make ones public debut in a new format, particularly with a well loved character, and in a medium as much scrutinized by the web-o-sphere as comics... But I had the comfort of having great editors at IDW (Chris Ryall and Denton Tipton) and I knew whatever I wrote, Ilias would make me look good.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Character, Editors, Comfort

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Responsibility, Hands, Guessing

  "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

  Mike Tucker

  Art, Games, Video

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.

  Colin Stetson

  Air, Rooms, Instruments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

  Tom Scharpling

  Funny Things, Trying, Rams

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

  Michael Hyatt

  Religious, Believe, Artist

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

  Michael Hyatt

  Art, Uncles, Swimming

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.

  Simon Pegg

  Ideas, Long, Doubt

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Taken, Thinking, Needs

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

  Brian Chippendale

  Morning, Eggs, Trying

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.

  Matt Tong

  Growing Up, Rocks, Singers

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you're growing so quickly.

  Tony Hsieh

  Mistake, Thinking, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.

  Francoise Mouly

  Art, Reading, Listening

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Keys, Differences

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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