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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I think that because television is shot on a really fast schedule, and it gets piped into your home on a smaller screen, it's much more about character and dialogue in a lot of cases than the movies are.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

With film, you read the whole script three or four times, and you really have a solid blueprint of who your character is. Whereas in television, that blueprint is constantly changing and adapting, and sometimes you have to take a risk.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.