Mediums Quotes - Page 8

• With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

  Emma Donoghue

  Way, Attention, Pace

  "The Keeper of Room". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Views, Film

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2011.

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• If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Successful, Directors, Different

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of course, there are some narrative films that I could never forget, but there are more documentaries that have had that impact on me.

  Richard Ray Perez

  Powerful, Impact, Narrative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hbo, Mass Culture, Television

  "Marina Abramovic Explains How HBO and Lady Gaga Bring Performance Art to a New Audience". SUNDANCE interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

  Philippe Claudel

  Artist, Trying, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use.

  Philippe Claudel

  Running, Writing, Technique

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The idea of discussing psychological and philosophical ideas in a visual medium was really exciting to me. I thought I was going to go into philosophy...and suddenly I found this way to combine that with my love for visual mediums.

  Andrew Neel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Believe, Two, Down And

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Reality, Two, Needs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Every medium has its own kind of freedom. I don't want to just cross from one to the next. I want to enjoy the freedom each one has. Sometimes, you can do something for TV that you can't do in the cinema.

  Takashi Miike

  Cinema, Want, Next

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Growth, Mexico

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• When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Writing, Character, Exercise

  "Lenny Kravitz Shares His Acting 'Hunger'". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Filled In, Silence, Television

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks Deadfall, Sons of Anarchy Season 5, Pacific Rim, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for Wb and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The woman is skin covered prozac I like to call her. Half the trick to a film like this is keeping a sort of emotional level going and keeping an attitude that induces creativity on the set. You have to be in a good mood for that. You have to be happy to make a comedy I think and Anne sort of ensured that every time by expressing most of her feelings through the exciting medium of dance.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Attitude, Creativity, Emotional

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Mean, Expression, Feelings

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• I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.

  Walter Cronkite

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

  Alan Kay

  Media, Expression, Degrees

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• The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.

  Al Gore

  Long, Political, Age

  Saving the Constitution Speech at Constitution Hall, delivered 16 January 2006, Washington, D.C.

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• TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

  James Van Praagh

  Responsibility, People, Television

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The Internet hasn't had a chance to really get to where people look at it with the proper level of scrutiny. There's so much bullshit on the Internet. It doesn't get filtered out because it's such a new medium.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Bullshit, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Play, Symphony

  Interview with Bryce Dessner, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  College, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.

  Matt Groening

  Art, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

  D.A. Wallach

  Song, People, Justice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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