There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.
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Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.
That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
TV is the place that writers want to be.