I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.
If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.
I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.
I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.
I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.