TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The directors you want to work with are in the television world.
Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.
Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!
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.
I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.
Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to make sure you make it in the right place. It also depends on time commitment; a lot of directors will make a pilot, but a series is just a whole other level of involvement.
I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.