Film And Television Quotes

• I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

  Shirley Knight

  New York, Theater, Moved

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• I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Theatre, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It makes sense that it's so different from film and television, because it's so in-depth. As actors, when we're in film or television, we can have transcendent moments and we get to work with really creative and incredible people, but it's such a small percentage of your time that's about your process.

  Zachary Quinto

  People, Creative, Depth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  Karen Walton

  Drama, Writing, Doors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's no reason the story of Christianity wouldn't be more prevalent in film and television considering the audience size who love and believe the stories. This is a broad audience and deserves to be on broadcast TV.

  Mark Burnett

  Believe, Tvs, Size

  "‘A.D.’s Mark Burnett & Roma Downey On Besting ‘The Bible’, Season 2 And No Satan". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. April 3, 2015.

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• This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.

  Christian Cooke

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood.

  Colin Callender

  Successful, Careers, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.

  Colin Callender

  Moving, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: deadline.com

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• We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," an original screenplay, "Ghostbusters" an original screenplay, "Back to the Future." All these things that people love were original ideas many years ago.

  Alfred Gough

  Stars, War, Years

  "‘Into the Badlands’ Creators On Attempting Something That’s Never Been Tried on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2015.

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• Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

  Liz W. Garcia

  Real, Directors, Males

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• It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

  Denis Leary

  Careers, Hard, Television

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

  Charles Keating, Jr.

  Television, Film, Pampered

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• I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Character, Thinking, Theatre

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. Youre all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

  Haylie Duff

  People, Able, Toes

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• I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn't an actor who can just do one thing. I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.

  Adam Pally

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

  Tom Ford

  Country, New York, Kids

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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• The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Opportunity, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

  Jonathan Banks

  Thank God, Lucky, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Night, People, Television

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• I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

  Cillian Murphy

  Being Yourself, Revenge, Night

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

  Jussie Smollett

  People, Television, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Growing Up, Strange, Grows

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember having to hit a mark and having no idea how to do it, real childlike stuff, because Carnegie Mellon didn't do an extensive job preparing us for film and television. It was very much a theater program. That was my first job. It was cool. I was glad it was.

  Zachary Quinto

  Jobs, Real, Ideas

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Tickets, Actors

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.

  Zachary Quinto

  Taken, School, Actors

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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