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You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.