Brian Greene Quotes

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

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.

The highest power of television journalism is not the transmission of information but the transmission of experience.

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

Television is a very gratifying medium.

When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

Video is just exploding on Instagram - motion is the new filter. We're going to help people use visuals to tell their stories.

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: the dumbing down of the audience. To be part of an audience is a privilege. To be with the people on stage, to let them reach you. If you're doing a million other things, they won't reach you.

Ever since I was introduced to Ekta Kapoor, I have learnt a great deal from her storytelling, and the learning continues.

Film as a medium has a power that sports like wrestling lack.

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

Theatre is a more difficult visual medium than films. You need to hold the attention span of the audience without goofing up and be able to express yourself as vividly as possible.

No one can deliver visual content like Getty Images.

There's a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that's because you're not supposed to see a lot of it. You're supposed to feel that a film has pace and rhythm and drama, but you're not necessarily supposed to be worried about how that was accomplished.

One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.

Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.