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You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

TV is a writer's medium.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.