Mediums Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• I'm very interested in clans and the way people group together, and there's a lot of group shots. There's a lot of people in positions that people feel like they're in attack mode, kind of pointed at each other in the frame. I'm not a big fan of shooting something that looks like it could belong in any movie, I'm not a fan of okay, "wide shot, wide shot, medium shot, close-up, close-up, we'll figure it out in post." I hate that.

  Justin Simien

  Hate, People, Together

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• [Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Thinking, Profound

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• If two parties, instead of being a bank and an individual, were an individual and an individual, they could not inflate the circulating medium by a loan transaction, for the simple reason that the lender could not lend what he didn't have, as banks can do. Only commercial banks and trust companies can lend money that they manufacture by lending it.

  Irving Fisher

  Party, Simple, Commercial Banks

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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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• I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.

  Chris Ware

  Thinking, Pages, Way

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• You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself

  Sally Potter

  Powerful, Struggle, Divorce

  "TIFF: Interview with Sally Potter – Writer and Director of Ginger and Rosa". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I always find it funny when people say, "I don't really like classical music" or "it doesn't do anything for me." I tell them, "Well, you know, it does. You go to films and you're responding to it, and you've heard it..." It's controlling you! So don't think you're not being affected. It's a great medium for music.

  Joshua Bell

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

  Clive Owen

  Opportunity, Directors, Good Directors

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

  Kemp Muhl

  Skills, Taste, Stills

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

  Terence Koh

  Artist, Internet, Popularity

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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