Medium Impact Quotes

I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I don't like the aspect of people reading it for free. When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. But I don't know. I'm sure 10 times more people are reading it online than in the actual paper.

The medium obscured the message.

I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.

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.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content - in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

TV has given me everything. Whatever I am today is because of this medium.

Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.

The material dictates the approach.

I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.