John Lithgow Quotes

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

I love working in television and in comedy, so whenever there's an opportunity to work on a TV sitcom, I'm like, 'Yes please!'

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?'

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

Putting any show on television is a challenge. I've been very lucky to work with incredible showrunners on 'Smallville' and 'Lost' and 'Heroes.' I hope to bring a lot of those lessons to Marvel live television.

I do a lot on TV.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

You don't really have time to watch TV if you work on TV.

At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

I would never, ever, ever, ever say I have regretted the 'A-Team,' 'Magnum PI' or 'Murder She Wrote' or any of the others I did - and if you mention a television series, I'm sure I had a hand in it.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.