George Clooney Quotes

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

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

I definitely want to branch into television and mainstream.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

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'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.

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

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.

Back then, all the networks were still making a movie a week, virtually. So I did five of them that year. So it was just a nonstop... '92 was a great, nonstop ride in Vancouver.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

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.