Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
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.
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.
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.