Mediums Quotes

• Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

  Daryl Hannah

  Movie, Actors, Filmmaking

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

  Chad Lowe

  Believe, Important, Stories

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

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• I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

  Christine Baranski

  Preference

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

  Joe Morton

  Jobs, Technique, Cameras

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• I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Garden, People, Collaboration

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• Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Photography, Humanity, Body

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• I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Movie, Inspiring, Differences

  "Screenwriters on Screenwriting". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.

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• Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

  Carter Burwell

  Media, Connections, Film

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• It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

  Steve Albini

  Artist, Thinking, Hubris

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• I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

  Robin Trower

  Night, Two, Sideways

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• I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

  Sue Kelly

  Unique, Agriculture, Size

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• 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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• 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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