Mediums Quotes - Page 7

• Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

  Wim Wenders

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

  Irving Kaufman

  Stars, Judging, Decision

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• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  Fay Godwin

  People, Faithful, Trying

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• TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

  Tom Skerritt

  Writing, Different, Tvs

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• Film, I think, is my medium.

  Pia Zadora

  Thinking, Film

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• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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• The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Patterns, Action

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

  Betty Goodwin

  Artist, Expression, Drawing

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• Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Fields, Firsts

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

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• A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.

  Publilius Syrus

  Love, Hate, Knows

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• The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

  Deborah Mailman

  Opportunity, Different, Film And Television

  "Interview with Deborah Mailman – Star of The Sapphires". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

  Emma Goldman

  Jealousy, Poor, Jealous And Envy

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Ideas, People, Coercion

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• Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

  Alison Bechdel

  Writing, Drawing, Wish

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• To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

  Alan Kay

  Magic, Literacy, Aim

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• Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.

  Roger Corman

  Ideas, Getting Older, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Actors, Television, Stepping Away

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.

  Emily Deschanel

  Moving, Thinking, Trying

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.

  Richard Sherman

  Artist, Personality, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

  Karl Urban

  Stories, Legends, Fantasy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

  Keira Knightley

  Stupid, Would Be, Looks

  "Keira Knightley Talks Pride and Prejudice" by Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

  Cheech Marin

  Normal, Bigger, Animation

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

  Spike Lee

  Artist, Support, Matter

  "rt in the Age of Shenanigans: Kehinde Wiley x Spike Lee". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, Kehinde Wiley, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

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