Medium Quotes

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The medium is the message.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.