Saul Bass Quotes

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

I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.

There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

Personally, as a filmmaker, I think you should prepare your audience as to what they can expect.

Each medium has its own beauty and way of working. While television offers immense reach and long-running shows, films are shorter and they are presented differently. With theatre, it's the thrill of instant feedback.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.

Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

If you look at my movies, they're pretty densely packed, such that they not only hold up to a second viewing, they're oftentimes better the second time you watch them. So I've always thought about crafting stories that could hold up to multiple viewings, and so VR obviously fits right into that.

There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies.

I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.

Songs definitely add to the excitement about a movie.

My position was that the film begins with the first frame and that the film should be doing a job at that point.

I think, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention to what kind of movie you're making, what is the audience experiencing, and does this joke fit with this joke?

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.