Grant Bowler Quotes

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

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.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I like that.

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

I wanted to understand the whole medium and that is when I decided to do television. Once I thought that, I was confident about making a film.

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

What's neat about TV is you get really rich, an opportunity to tell really rich stories over the course of 20 hours. Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. You go on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up. Maybe in a franchise you have three chapters of a great story but in TV you can really get deep. You have more time to tell stories so I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.