Format Quotes

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

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 like the TV format. I like how fast it is.

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.

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

The digital formats keep changing so rapidly. I feel like so many people are shooting digital but the quality is being lost. There's a texture and a richness to the 35 format that's incomparable.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

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 think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

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.

The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.

Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on it as it was happening. This was gratifying to me.

It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

You see new shows coming out with the same format, slightly high end, a little bit more glossy. You think, "S - . It's just the same s - but different day."

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.

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

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.

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.

I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.

I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big.

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

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'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

[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.

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.

Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

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.