It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.
I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.
When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.