With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
I'm new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It's a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That's new for me. I tend to establish with a director - and then two days later, he's gone.
On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.
Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
So much about being a director is getting the show ready for that first preview audience. I have a lot of experience making events that only happen once; it's opening and closing night in the same three-hour span.