There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.
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They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.
TV is a writer's medium.
Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.
Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.