Richard Madden Quotes

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

What's so cool about movies is once you're done with the movie, you put it away and come up with a whole new different idea with different characters and a different world. But in TV, you build these characters, and you build this world, and then you're there for however long you do the show.

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

I think you can achieve things in television that you can't achieve on film, and I think we managed to do a lot of that in the first season of 'Lost.'

TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

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.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.