Brian Michael Bendis Quotes

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.

Television... is not a substitute for print.

Why would you want to work in television. I don’t watch television.

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

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

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.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

I think what you have to do in print is to create even more memorable images and more memorable pieces because what one consumes online or in social has a much shorter shelf life, so to speak, so what print has to have is no more weight, but it has to be something that you can't find so easily online. It has to really stand for print.

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

Television is a very gratifying medium.

I have grown up in a small city where watching TV is a ritual and Balaji has defined TV in so many ways.

Each medium has its own beauty and way of working. While television offers immense reach and long-running shows, films are shorter and they are presented differently. With theatre, it's the thrill of instant feedback.

The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

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.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

A picture is worth a thousand texts.