TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
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You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it's almost love-hate. You're under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
TV is the place that writers want to be.
One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.
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