In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.
Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.
Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.
I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.
Danny Archer: [Punches guy in stomach] That's for breaking my TV!
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.
I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
