A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.
Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.
One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.
Television has changed. Some feels like good old-fashioned TV, and some of it feels more filmic and more natural and more nuanced. I don't think there's any clear line any longer between film and TV.
Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes.
TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.