“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.” KindImportantSchoolFilmOpportunityTelevisionMajorsGraduatesGreat OpportunityFilm SchoolNorthwestern Author:Richard Donner
“You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.” IfsGivingMadeRememberFilmOpportunityGrowing UpGrowingFansTelevisionGiving Back Author:Jon Huertas
“The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.” ChildrenLongOpportunityAbilityViolenceTelevisionShapesEverydayScreensShootingOur SocietyWarfareConsentEveryday LifeLensesGangKidnappingMagnifyingFamily Violence Author:Sissela Bok
“The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.” MayTwoCharacterFilmThreeOpportunityHoursDifferencesTelevisionPeriodsConfinedFilm And Television Author:Elijah Wood
“What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.” PeopleIfsWayLongDifferentStoriesFormCoursesOpportunityGivenAbilityWatchesAudienceWeekMissingTelevisionDramaComplexesStorytellingDifferent WaysOnlineStorytellerCostumesCablesDvdsInteractingMining Author:Sarah Wayne Callies
“The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.” PeopleKindHas BeensDifferentOpportunityGoneTelevisionBenefitsRemainsEnginesPlatformsPromotionRatingHorizontal Author:Anne Sweeney
“I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.” FeelsActorsOpportunityAudienceRichTelevisionVeinsPresenting Author:David Oyelowo
“There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.” WritingCharacterStoriesShowsUsedActorsOpportunityTelevisionDrawingUsed To BeCinemaGreat WritingMovie Actors Author:Keanu Reeves
“Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.” ArtFilmOpportunityAudienceTelevisionCinemaCommodityLiteracyDownturn Author:Roger Ebert