Medium Differences Quotes

I think you can achieve things in television that you can't achieve on film, and I think we managed to do a lot of that in the first season of 'Lost.'

When you're writing for a game - even if you're using very well known characters like Batman and his villains who lend themselves to many different interpretations - you have to keep in mind that you're writing for a different medium. Things are a bit more straightforward than it is for a feature film or a TV show.

Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.

On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

Certain things work on paper held together with staples. Comics use bright colors to make things leap off the page, but movies are a different medium.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

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.

Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.

Theater is a wonderful medium - I love theater myself, and there are exceptions to every rule - but the thing that motion pictures can do that theater cannot is that in movies, you don't have to rely on dialogue.

When I create and write for TV, I build universes that will have arcs lasting seasons, whereas theatre allows me to explore storylines that will open up for two hours or less. Both are wonderfully fulfilling, but they couldn't be more different.

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.

As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.

Movies are movies, television is television.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

The vocabulary of film is camera cuts, it's how they communicate. But games are different. We don't really need to do that. We do it because it's a language that we're familiar with.

I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.