Media Production Quotes

Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.

The parallel we like to make.... is the idea of becoming the next Warner Brothers, which is a company that creates the content, but they also produce the content. They also distribute; they also market. So we say that because Fine Bros. and Warner Brothers is fun to say.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

I've now done virtually everything there is to do in TV presenting: I've done sport shows, comedy shows, and I'm now doing music, which is great for me.

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

Broadcasting is a team effort and two, or three, individuals not functioning as a team cannot be as effective as they can if they set aside their own agendas and focus on what they see on their TV monitors and embellish the TV personas of the talents involved. I've been blessed to have had many outstanding partners.

I've never, like some people are, been embarrassed to be in radio.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

I was on the outside of the industry. So I started a podcast early in the podcast boom and that caught on a little. I made an album that went to No. 1 on the iTunes charts. I made my own special. I started my own storytelling show.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.