I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because. . . " or "This does work because. . . " The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
. . . truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.
I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.
The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.
What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?
There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool. " I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
I try to always go for something. . . very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.
As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.
I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.