Medium Exploration Quotes

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

I wanted to understand the whole medium and that is when I decided to do television. Once I thought that, I was confident about making a film.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.

I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

I'm just looking to explore every medium to express my talent, but I think mostly it's going to be a focus on features.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

You can sometimes break rules in comics that you can't necessarily break in cinema. It's fun to find something cool in a comic and then try and find a way to break the same rule in another medium.