Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense it has particular ways of catching an environment.

In fact in lyric poetry truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

I've written for every medium except poetry at which I suck.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet a medium. In a way we are just the medium.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast and enjoyable and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

The way I look at it movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

Whatever the medium there is the difficulty challenge fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.