Charlaine Harris Quotes

I feel like there's a lot of great writing on television.

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

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

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

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

I love doing television series.

TV is a writer's medium.

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing 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.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

I've been such a fan of American TV.

We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.

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.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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.

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I'm a big fan of TV.

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 developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

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