Media Transition Quotes

Actually, you have to spend a lot of time on TV. So I have taken a break from TV and shifted my focus in the movies.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

Most of the time, I don't think movies of TV shows are a great idea. It's worked a few times, but usually, I think that what's on TV works on TV.

For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.

I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.

I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

In a television age, the record is lame; it never catches up.

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.

I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.

When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical would just be gone.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.