Martine Syms Quotes

Television is intensely personal.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Television and I grew up together.

I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

Television is a very gratifying medium.

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.