Nick Hornby Quotes

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

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

At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

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

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

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

My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.' It was on 'FOX' in 2004.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

I like transformative TV.

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

I would never, ever, ever, ever say I have regretted the 'A-Team,' 'Magnum PI' or 'Murder She Wrote' or any of the others I did - and if you mention a television series, I'm sure I had a hand in it.

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.

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

I had never worked in television before 'Freaks and Geeks,' and 'New Girl' is the first time since that I've worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Television has changed. Some feels like good old-fashioned TV, and some of it feels more filmic and more natural and more nuanced. I don't think there's any clear line any longer between film and TV.

TV's been good to me.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.