David Morrissey Quotes

Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.

I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and, you know, you're allowed to make such great television.

If we do another 'Deadpool,' we'd love to have more money for visual effects. But I don't think anybody does good with an excess of time or money.

I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. You're aware that if you're nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha'penny, or the production values aren't going to be so high.

I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.