Media Forms Quotes

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt.

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

Television... is not a substitute for print.

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.

I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.

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

With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

Movies are movies, television is television.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.