Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

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.

I am here to tell you, TV is not dead. Rather, it is constantly evolving as we are. My view is that we are in the next Golden Age of content. If AOL, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Yahoo felt TV was dying, they would not be so eager to play in our sandbox. It is, after all, TV content that's driving their business.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.'

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.

With the advent of cable and such, you guys are calling it the golden age of TV in terms of the writing and stuff. But it's like different branches of a big tree that TV has become.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

I think people are going to places that they weren't able to with television before, and I think Netflix really paved the way for that. With freedom comes better content, and with better content comes great actors and a bigger audience. I think that has just snowballed into a movement for making really great TV.

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

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I've ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when 'L.A. Law' was on. It was lawyers and cops.

The reality is, 'Game of Thrones' has been a successful show for HBO, which has put us in a position to come and pitch another show and get them excited about it. And that's what helped get us here.

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

Everybody is talking about cord cutting. It's not about the cord. It's the content.

Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

I wonder if, as the tech to deliver content continues to evolve, we will start seeing the one season / 6-8 hour show that ends at a peak moment rather than is cancelled because it sucks.

I definitely applaud Netflix and all of those guys, whether it's Hulu or whoever, for doing original programming.