Mediums Quotes - Page 15

• Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

  Corey Stoll

  Book, Criticism, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Perception, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.

  David Douglas

  Thinking, Cameras, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

  Peter Block

  Biblical, Giving, Anecdotes

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.54, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• [This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.

  Terence McKenna

  Substance, Body, Mystery

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• Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!

  Leon Trotsky

  Stars, Believe, Ignorance

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• It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Risk, Alternatives

  "Charlie Munger Speaks - Part 2". Charlie Munger's comments on businesses at the 2000 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 15, 2000.

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• I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary to bring you in - a sense of economy, a sense of scale, which just seemed to understand the medium so well. When you see that in a younger actor, I always think it speaks to incredible knowledge. I can't exactly figure out where that comes from, that confidence to know how to be quiet.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, Actors, Quiet

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Communication, Mold, Stories

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Bombs, Messages, Atomic Bomb

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• Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel like now with Adult Swim and all these different outlets for adults to enjoy animation, it's huge. I love being a part of it, absolutely love it.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Kids, Love Is, Swim

  Source: collider.com

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• Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love Is, Imperfection, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1137, Delphi Classics

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• I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.

  Idris Elba

  Character, Directors, Way

  "Idris Elba Isn’t Interested In Awards, He Just Wants To Keep On Working". Interview with Leigh Blickley and Jon Strauss, on.mtv.com. December 4, 2015.

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• You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.

  Glen Mazzara

  Jobs, Nice, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

  Sergey Brin

  Government, Korea, People

  "Sergey Brin: In A Facebook Dominated Internet, Google Would Have Never Been Possible" by an Katz, www.businessinsider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Clown, Made

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• The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

  Ryan Ross

  Prison, Fortune, Fortune Teller

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• The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.

  Glen Mazzara

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Love Is, Space, Magazines

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• The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dream - the two, of course, being intimately connected and interacting with each other.

  Arthur Koestler

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, World Love, People

  "Tonys Q&A: Neil Patrick Harris on His Fourth Turn Hosting Broadway's Big Night". Interview with David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

  Brian Eno

  Black And White, Signatures, Events

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• Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Lying, Battle

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• It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

  Bipasha Basu

  Circles, Focus, Cinema

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• Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American.

  Demetri Martin

  Interesting, Adjectives, Size

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