Richard Masur Quotes

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

The future of American film lies on television.

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film.

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'

I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

We shot 'Lucas' in 42 days; that's a lot of filming.

150 shooting days is quite normal, which is not the case in Hollywood, as I am told. Most of the big films there are done in 70 or 80 days.

I definitely want to have a career in the TV/film industry, as I love acting, but if it all goes to pot, I want to set up a performing arts school for children with special needs.

Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

When you are not working in TV and primarily doing film, you're working with one director for a long period of time, so getting to work with 12 different directors in the span of six months is incredible.

I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.

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've done a lot of television over the last years, and you know, with some television productions, if you can do with just one take, you can move on and do something else.

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it's just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.

There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's tight, everything's paired down and it's just a question of making it look expensive.

While we were shooting 'Baahubali,' I had a knee injury, and a few months later, Prabhas injured his shoulder. Those two injuries meant a break of around five months from the schedule. So around that time, I was doing absolutely nothing, and Neeraj Pandey called me with 'Baby.'