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.
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TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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.
TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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.
Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.
With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.