Louis Leterrier Quotes

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.

The future of American film lies on television.

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.

I'm an actor, and so of course I want to see TV companies making good dramas. I want that to be a priority.

One of my previous incarnations is as a question writer, so I'd worked on shows like 'The Weakest Link' and a couple of very short-lived ITV series.

We'd become lazy with 'Top Gear,' doing six or seven shows a series.

In Pakistan, our medium is the small screen. We don't make many films, and hardly have theaters. A majority of people seek entertainment while sitting at home and TV gives it to them, so we excel on that part.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

You're used to a TV show, and TV is just made for TV shows. It's not made for live events.So anyways, I was resistant to it, but I did it anyway.

Now it's all about the word of mouth, and watching a series on Netflix. That's the way people actually consume this stuff now, instead of waiting for a DVD release you're not really sure you want to buy. And I think it's fantastic, because then I can watch the shows that I missed, over a weekend. I love doing that.

I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in.

I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

I download TV shows more and more, especially from the U.S.

I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.