Dawn Steel Quotes

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

My main income came from failed movie and TV options.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

After making a lot more films, I realized that the movie and TV business is, for all its inefficiencies, one of the best-run big businesses we have.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much?

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.