A Quote by Goodman Ace

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace

Quote Topics

Because Call Done Medium Nothing Television Well Well Done

Quote Author

Goodman Ace
American - Writer
January 15, 1899 - March 25, 1982

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Fred Allen

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Ernie Kovacs

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Ernie Kovacs

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

Bill Moyers

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

Jason Bateman

Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

David L. Wolper

I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.

Elijah Wood

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Charlie Hunnam

Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.

Fred Allen

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.

Walter Cronkite

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

David Chase

Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.

Jim Carroll

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.

Michelle MacLaren

We have a process that continually looks back to him for guidance, but it also combines that with a tremendous amount of discovery and invention, as well, because of the demands of the medium and the opportunities of the medium.

Christopher Meledandri

A Quote by Goodman Ace

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors