“We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at the swipe of a finger. To get folks out of their homes for a piece of art or entertainment, I think you need to offer something they can't get on Netflix or Amazon.” ThinkingNeedsArtHomeFilmPiecesTelevisionInternetOffersFingersFolksEntertainmentAvailableErasMassiveAmazonNetflixFilm And Television Author:Nick Blaemire
“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
“Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesDifferentStoriesFilmBitsTermDifferencesTelevisionLittle BitScriptsCastsDimensionsWant MeBattlefieldsMeadowsYou Want MeInsertHorizontalTaj MahalMahalLive TelevisionFilm WritingLiterary Terms Author:Rod Serling
“Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.” ThinkingWorldWayFilmTelevisionPerspectivePhotographyEuropeInstanceProjectionModernismCubismMatisseOceania Author:David Hockney
“I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.” FilmCareersStageTelevisionTheater Author:Hal Holbrook
“One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.” NeedsMadeStatesFilmCompanySituationTelevisionDramaAspectTheaterCurrentsStudiosCinemaJapanExposedExtensionsAdaptationNeed A ChangeBroadcastingGood FilmsAnimeTelevision Drama Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.” FactsFilmTelevisionArguingThese DaysHeatRegularity Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“There is something so great about film and television where you can convey an emotion in the blink of an eye which you would perhaps not be able to do to the back row of a theatre, like over 1000 seats, and there is something so subtle and beautiful about that too.” EyeAbleBeautifulFilmEmotionTelevisionTheatreSeatsSubtleBlinkFilm And TelevisionBlink Of An Eye Author:Anna Camp
“One thing that is very different technically is that you don't get a lot of coverage in television. Not like you do on a film. I know we don't have time for separate set-ups, so I will design a scene where I'm hiding multiple cameras within that set-up. That way, if I don't have time to do five set-ups, I can do four cameras in one set-up. It's a different kind of approach for that. For the most part, a lot of television, in a visual sense, lacks time for the atmosphere and putting you in a place.” IfsKnowsWayKindI CanDifferentFilmCan DoFiveFourOne ThingDesignTelevisionLike YouSceneApproachCamerasAtmosphereVisualsHidingDifferent KindsMultipleCoverage Author:Len Wiseman
“I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.” WantFeelsFilmHoursQualityTelevisionIndependentBlessedIndependent Film Author:Maggie Siff
“There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.” SaidFilmInterestingHeardTelevisionTheatricalInteresting Places Author:Barry Levinson
“I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.” WritingMomentsFilmTelevisionInvolvedOne DayDirect Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.” CharacterStoriesTogetherFilmOrderTelevisionPerformancesCraftsIntricateCoherence Author:Gabriel Mann
“Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before.” IfsFirstsTwoFeelingsFilmStuffHoursGoneTelevisionTvsAmountNormalShotsEnormousShootingLength Author:Richard Masur
“I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.” WellsLittlesDoneFilmStupidTelevisionTheaterBoston Author:David Morse
“There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew that I was going to leave and become an actor, and be in film and television, and I've done it.” KindDoneFilmActorsTelevisionTheaterTownsChainsFast FoodMovie TheaterFood ChainFilm And Television Author:Kristen Hager
“I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.” WantedFilmTelevisionIndustryFilm And Television Author:Jason Gann
“What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do everything. I do theater, film, and television, and the theater is mostly financed by the government.” GovernmentHappensFilmActorsTelevisionTvsTheaterIsraelDividedFilm And TelevisionFilm Actors Author:Meital Dohan
“In ten years, or certainly before then, I'd like to not only be continuously busy as an actor playing tormented, playful characters in film and television but also have gotten a few of my own films made.” YearsMadeCharacterFilmActorsMy OwnTelevisionTenBusyFilm And Television Author:Kyle Cassie
“There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.” FilmTeamTelevisionHugeBiggerFilm And Television Author:Kyle Cassie
“I love working in film and television, but I do miss singing on stage. You can't find that anywhere else, so I hope this opens up a whole new concert world for me. I had so much fun and it went so well, I hope it leads to more.” WorldWellsWholeFilmFunStageMissingTelevisionSingingConcertsFilm And Television Author:Aaron Tveit
“Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.” ChildrenLongI CanWantedRememberFilmGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionActressesTheatreArtisticFilm And TelevisionChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been a great television series. Something like The Wire gives us a rich and fully achieved picture of the wasteful, cruel War on Drugs; something like The White Ribbon gives a perspective on World War I that could only have been presented long after the event itself.” WorldGivingLongHas BeensArtWarFilmFormWhiteRichEventsTelevisionPerspectiveDrugSeriesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IWireWar On DrugsRibbonsGreat FilmFilm And Television Author:Teju Cole
“The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.” ThinkingKindCareFilmGivenTelevisionSeriousCriticismSubstanceAfghanistanReservedBakersHypocritical Author:David Edelstein
“When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.” PlayCharacterAbleFilmCareersTelevisionCollegeAreasDecidedWidePursueGenreRangePerformersMuppet Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.” FilmHoursAudienceTelevisionComposer Author:Bear McCreary
“The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.” ImportantFilmTelevisionDirectorsImportant Relationships Author:Bear McCreary
“During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode.” ShowsFeelingsFilmThreeNextWaitingFourTelevisionEpisodesChristmas Time Author:Volker Bertelmann
“We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second.” ThinkingStoriesFilmPerfectTelevisionSeriesAnxious Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were made and I'm happy about that, but now the recent film and TV stuff have validated me, as if that makes any sense.” IfsMadeFilmStuffTelevisionSonTvsSeriesAnimationAnimatedAnimated Series Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.” PeopleThinkingStillsJobsFilmTermTelevisionDiverseRepresentingBetter Jobs Author:Tracee Ellis Ross