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The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.
I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to succeed.
I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.
Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
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.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.
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.
I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all.
Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.
Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
If your business isn’t optimised for mobile, it might as well be invisible. Mobile isn’t going to be a medium. It’s going to be the medium.
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.
Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.
I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.
I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.
I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a cohesive experience.
That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.
I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums - poems, literature, film, and journalism.
I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.
Different mediums are giving a different kind of satisfaction. The reason I do television, if I do web for the same reason, I will not be able to sustain it, and vice versa.