Creative Medium Quotes

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

Film, I think, is my medium.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

When I started, TV was regarded as something that wasn't as great as film or theatre or radio, but it has proved to have far greater powers than those.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.