TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.
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.
I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great in that way. It's as close to theater as you can get.
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
You have a schedule that you really have to stick to with TV and make sure that you are producing enough film for the network to edit through and air quickly.
When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.