I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.
My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.
More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
I've been a fan of Loretta Devine's, since I was a kid, from 'Waiting To Exhale,' and she's been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows.
Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.
I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.
Craig Schwartz: [watching the puppeteer with the giant puppet on TV] Gimmicky bastard...
TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.
Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
