Media Comparison Quotes

The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They'll be able to say, "Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is." The differences are manifold.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

Television is to news as a bumper sticker is to Shakespeare.

I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

I've dealt with a lot of media and I know the New York media different, for sure.

I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

A pamphlet is usually read but once, but a song is heard over and over again.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.