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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.

Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it.

With the advent of cable and such, you guys are calling it the golden age of TV in terms of the writing and stuff. But it's like different branches of a big tree that TV has become.

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.

Normally, a TV show shoots episodically.