Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.
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 like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it.
Films are always different from books.
TV is a writer's medium.