William Friedkin Quotes

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

I don't need any more avenues of communication, and frankly I think people are still working out to realize that it's just a tool[social media] rather than something that you have to do or participate in.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.

All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with.

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.

I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the spotlight and don't care, or people who have egos along the lines of Donald Trump - who just don't care what people say about them - they're the only people who are ever going to run because nobody wants their life dissected as meanly and as randomly as our media has come to do with anybody who runs for office.

I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press. I think new media is a great way to get out the truth.