“There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.” MenMadeBookFilmTelevisionHe ManDirectorsCinemaRoof Author:Maj Sjowall
“I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.” PeopleBigsPastFilmFansTelevisionTvsLuckyDirectorsSchedulesReally GreatGreat FilmPeople From The Past Author:Michael Weatherly
“The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.” FeelingsTogetherJoyGuySuccessfulTelevisionInvolvedDirectorsPhotographyCamerasCastsUnitsCrewTruckEnsembleComing TogetherGreat Feelings Author:Jeffrey Pierce
“I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.” WantAgeImagineTelevisionHugeDirectors Author:Shiri Appleby
“When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.” IfsKnowsWantDoeIdeasDifferentEndsCharacterGuyKnow HowTelevisionDirectorsScripts Author:Holt McCallany
“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.” KindShowsBitsResponsibilityStyleTelevisionColorDirectorsComplicatedMediumsProducersVisualsTelevision ShowsPalettePredetermined Author:Jason Bateman
“My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.” WantedFatherBehindsRolesFrontsTelevisionIndustryDirectorsCameras Author:Philip Glenister
“I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.” IfsWantedYoungTelevisionDirectorsStartingProducersThese DaysStarting Out Author:Michael Haneke
“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.” WorldWellsTwoRealCountryPoliticalLeftInterestingCitiesNew YorkTelevisionTvsDirectorsHollywoodTheaterAccidentsLondonReal LifePityArtisticRanBritainReal WorldBobMost InterestingWoodyLive Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.” KnowsIdeasTelevisionDirectorsCastsHonestlyCrewGoing To WorkRapport Author:Britt Robertson
“Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.” EndsEyeAbleWantedWaitingSilenceMinutesTelevisionDirectorsDirectCamerasFinalsEntertainmentHatedEnduranceEpisodesCagesMasterpieceUnbearableRelentlessEvery SecondAgonizingPaintbrush Author:Andy Greenwald
“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.” ThinkingLongCharacterStoriesShowsMovingActorsInterestingHalfWatchesCreativeWonderfulTelevisionPeriodsDirectorsCreatingIncrediblesStorytellingMediumsObsessedTelevision ShowsTelling StoriesLong Periods Of TimeInteresting Places Author:Elijah Wood
“Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.” KnowsActorsBitsNumbersTelevisionDirectorsJust OneNobody KnowsTreadmills Author:Michael J. Bassett
“The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingFirstsKindEndsStoriesFilmNextAsksDifferencesAudienceWeekTelevisionTvsReturnDirectorsNext Week Author:Jason Reitman
“But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.” KnowsWellsLittlesUseShowsActorsActingKnow HowTelevisionDadDirectorsShotsDirectCamerasMy DadVery GoodExcitedEpisodesNovemberTelevision Shows Author:Emily Deschanel
“Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew” RealFilmFrontsTelevisionDirectorsFemaleMalesSexismPersistCrewFilm And TelevisionCinematographers Author:Liz W. Garcia
“After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.” FilmOpportunityActingRolesTelevisionCollegeTvsDirectorsBritishCraftsGreat OpportunityShort FilmsBritish Television Author:Justin Chadwick
“When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.” WayWritingFilmWrittenProduceTelevisionDirectorsSticksExpectedProducersMerry Author:Marc Guggenheim
“It felt really nice to not have anybody talking about numbers, and no one is talking about ratings. From my experience, it felt like there was one person running the ship and it felt like there was space for Jenji to be at the helm. That's not what I've experienced in television before. It felt more akin to an interesting movie, where there were producers who were really excited by the work and wanted to make space for the director's vision to be sort of shared with an audience. It felt more cohesive.” PersonsRunningWantedFeltSpaceInterestingNumbersTalkingVisionAudienceNiceTelevisionDirectorsExcitedShipsProducersReally NiceRatingHelm Author:Taylor Schilling
“The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.” WayCharacterShowsTelevisionSceneDirectorsFollowingVagabonds Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The directors are really good. They really work with you. So, I'm not really on set thinking, "Oh, my God, this is television. It's very different."” ThinkingDifferentPlayAmericaTelevisionDirectorsToysCranes Author:Franka Potente
“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.” WorldActorsOpportunityCuttingStyleTelevisionIndustryDirectorsComputerMusicianEdgesScreensProgrammingShelvesAmazonCutting EdgeComputer Screen Author:Bill Maher
“I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.” ForceBehindsCreativeFocusTelevisionGoes OnDirectorsSkillsProducersFeaturesComes And Goes Author:Eric Balfour
“Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.” ShowsWeekProduceTelevisionDirectorsDirectProducersEpisodesTelevision Shows Author:Eric Balfour
“You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.” IfsEndsAbleMovingFunResultsTelevisionDirectorsEnd Results Author:Jason Winer
“I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.” StillsIdeasTelevisionDirectorsProducersShockedMovie Director Author:Jeff Tremaine
“My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss ideas. You research the characters and figure out the components of their look through your own vision. You create a color palette for a film, television or stage medium and discuss it with the director of photography who then lights your colored subjects.” LooksIdeasCharacterLightJobsFilmVisionSubjectsStageFiguresDesignTelevisionColorDirectorsPhotographyResearchMy FavoriteMediumsCostumesComponentsVisionariesArtistryPalette Author:Ruth E. Carter
“I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.” FactsFilmMissingTelevisionDirectorsCastsLive Television Author:Rod Serling
“The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.” ImportantFilmTelevisionDirectorsImportant Relationships Author:Bear McCreary
“I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.” ActorsTelevisionDirectorsProgramProducers Author:James Lipton