Marc Guggenheim Quotes

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.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

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

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.

TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

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

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

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.

That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

We've always been an entertainment company.

Televison is time bound. Whereas a movie has time. You can't write a script for television and keep it for one year.

I actually worked on the pilot of 'The Chase' and wrote the questions on it.

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 do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.

My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something I wanted to do. I really never thought about going to work on big feature films in Hollywood. But when we made The Householder, Columbia Pictures bought it. Who would have ever imagined?

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

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