Mediums Quotes - Page 17

• I know that what keeps me interested in my job and in the medium in general that what makes every few months more interesting, or newly interesting every few weeks, is the idea that everything is changing, that the ideas that you think are sacrosanct and unimpeachable suddenly are up for grabs again.

  Khoi Vinh

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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

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• To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Book, Mean, Paper

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• No matter what you watch, it has an impact. So, why not use this medium to bring great stories to millions of people around the world with the goal of not only entertaining them but inspiring them. That's what motivates me. That's why I get up every day.

  DeVon Franklin

  Impact, People, Goal

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium in which assault flourishes.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sex, Boys

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

  T Bone Burnett

  Generations

  "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

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• [Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Long, Television

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". www.wbur.org. March 22, 2013.

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• Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

  David Mccandless

  Government, Years, Data

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• I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Meaningful, Technology, Want

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I was never presented with the details as far as the collective bargaining system is Greece. I am in favor of a normal system without giving the labour minister the right to extend the results to extend the result of the collective bargaining to the whole of the real economy. The government has to make sure that the results will not harm the situation of small and medium enterprises.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Real, Government, Giving

  Source: marketnews.com

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• I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.

  Seungri

  Witty, Artist, Thinking

  Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

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• I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

  Anton Yelchin

  Photography, Film, Extensions

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Writing, Emotional

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

  Juliette Lewis

  Different, Pieces, Tvs

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.

  Juliette Lewis

  Thinking, Going Away, Lasts

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Wall, Dark

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

  Scott Avett

  Artist, Firsts, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Creative, Miracle

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Video, Use, Ease

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• If we're not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas - I have no problem with 35mm.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Drama, Shooting, Digital

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Mind, Digital

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

  Jeff Britting

  Stories, Anthem

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

  Daniel Clowes

  Real, Age, Fluidity

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.

  Mike McCue

  Ideas, People, Firsts

  "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.

  Mike McCue

  Communication, Ipads, Today

  "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change. It has the ability to put big, complex, and controversial subjects across in an easy-to-understand and digestible form. It has the power to change someone's perspective on the world in a very short space of time - film has the power to change the world itself.

  Sam Branson

  Powerful, Believe, Space

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