Lynn Shelton Quotes

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I realized I loved working in television as well as film. Besides, if I hadn't been forced to look for work in TV, I'd never have gotten to work on 'Game of Thrones.'

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.

In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

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

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

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.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.

I would love to do more television.

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

There was a time when I really wanted to do films, but they didn't come my way. I would come close and the next day suddenly I'd realise that I am not a part of the film anymore. So that's how television happened.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

I started in television in the U.K., and I've always wanted to get back into TV.

Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

I've done a lot of film, so I'd like to get back into television.

I definitely want to branch into television and mainstream.

I was one of the first few film people to ever do television.