Terence Winter Quotes

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

I always used to tell others that 'we should make films to make the people happy.'

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

Films are just consumables.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

I guess the dream would be to do movies, and keep people updated with my videos.

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'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.

I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.