'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.
The bottom line - customers want delicious food served quickly in an interactive format, and they are increasingly unwilling to compromise.
The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.
I almost did the knee-jerk thing of saying Judge Judy is funny to me, but I just don't have the patience for the format of that show.
I'm not the kind of artist who can just gear myself to a particular radio format without looking like a fashion victim.
Playing Test cricket for one's country is the ultimate, but people are enjoying Twenty20 format because everything will be over within three hours.
The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.
I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.
We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you're not working in that format, it's fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself.
'Collateral' poses lots of questions and does it within the format of a really good, tense thriller. It starts at a real pace, and it doesn't let go.
I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.
Earlier in the shorter format, I was not consistent, so I was not getting noticed. But I always believed that I had the game to do it. It was just about consistency.
The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.
Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.
I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.
Even though I am someone who played one-dayers more, I have equally prepared hard for the T20 format too.
'Bigg Boss' is one reality show which is a completely different format and pulls you out of your comfort zone.
What excited me to do 'Thugs of Hindostan' was to make a film in the large format about a character, who is not inherently noble.
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.
I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.
It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
Strictly' is the most successful reality format in the world - it's in the 'Guinness Book of Records' - going to 38 countries. 'X Factor' hasn't done that.
I'm the best interviewer in the whole format. Except for Howard Stern, I'd put myself against anybody. Because I ask human questions.
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.
[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.
Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.
Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.
I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.
Qwiki is a game changer. The team has succeeded in creating an entirely new media format that will drastically improve the web experience.
I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.
Test cricket is a different format, you have to adjust to five-day cricket.
American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.
I've always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people.
When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.
It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format
I've always wanted to play Test cricket from a young age and that's what you dream about. But you have to make sure you can contribute regardless of the format.
One of the reasons a film about Pablo Escobar has never been made in the two-hour format is because there's too much information.
You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.
Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.
I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are.
I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.
The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.
I want to tell Miranda's story more broadly than what I have been in these five-minute videos on the Internet. She can live in a longer format.
I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.
It was 'ST' format to let space and alien worlds, rather than human weakness, provide the conflict and danger necessary to our adventure show.
I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.
I think what we find, especially with the kids that grew up with 'Clone Wars,' when they're of the age where they're like, 'I want to revisit that stuff,' who knows what format they're going to watch it on.
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