Mediums Quotes - Page 33

• Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Week, Hours

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• I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Fun, Kids

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• So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

  Ted Nelson

  Connections, Records, Paper

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• So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

  Clay Shirky

  Funny, Thoughtful, Focus

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• I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

  Amanda Plummer

  Lying, Skins, Cameras

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

  Oliver Platt

  Lightning, Directors, Bottles

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. May 06, 2010.

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• Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Directors, Actors, Movie Making

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. November 05, 2002.

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• Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

  Ron Rash

  Fiction, Narrative, I've Learned

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• I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

  Shawn Ryan

  Humble, Tv Shows, Knowing

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• TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.

  Shawn Ryan

  Moving, Worry, Too Much

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

  Shawn Ryan

  Art, New York, Kids

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Movies are an editor's medium.

  Stephen Root

  Editors

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

  Lee Strobel

  Book, People, Realizing

  "Interview: Lee Strobel Makes Case for Faith ... Again". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. September 25, 2008.

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• I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

  Neil Strauss

  Love Is, Thinking, Stories

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• Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Europe, Debt

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• Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

  Lawrence Wright

  Stage Performance, Might, Able

  "Lawrence Wright Brings Mideast Conflict to Stage". Interview with Lauri Neff, Associated Press Writer, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 07, 2010.

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• For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

  Duncan Jones

  Smart, Two, Blade Runner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Television, Tvs, Grew Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.

  Christian Marclay

  Next, Different, Would Be

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• News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

  Leslie Moonves

  Church, News, Television

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• Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

  Anthony Mackie

  Thinking, People, Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

  Frank Miller

  Practice, Cinema, Towns

  "Q&A with Frank Miller" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2007.

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• What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

  Samuel West

  Believe, Air, Issues

  "The Guardian profile: Sam West" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

  John Brunner

  Mind, Excellence, Different

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• The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Information, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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