Christian Cooke Quotes

I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.

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, 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.

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

I feel like it's a golden age for television.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

I like both movies and TV, for different reasons. Films are amazing. It's so historic and exciting. Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel.

There's not going to be a 'Buffy' season nine on television.

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

Marvel and Netflix have proven they know what they're doing.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

Television is better than it's ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed - because of how complicated they are to make - toward Netflix and other channels on cable.

'Mad Men' was one of the first shows where Netflix was the first syndication window.

I've got 'Lost' and '24' on TiVo. And I'm an 'American Idol' fan.