Paul Schneider Quotes

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.

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

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 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?'

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't really like cinema. I don't know how many ways it was different or the same, but it was not quite like cinema. Now, cinema can happen on television.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

I think it's always difficult to get a show on telly, whether you're George Clooney or just starting out. But there's room. If you're into it, chase it. You'll get it.

I am very excited about the TV medium and the Amazon-Netflix medium. It has been so liberating to work on these formats.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

I've done a lot of film, so I'd like to get back into television.

I owe my career to TV. Most of my training has been through TV.

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.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.