Barry Levinson Quotes

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

We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I can say that. I have a television show.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

I would love to work on another installment of 'Gilmore Girls.'

I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.

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

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

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.

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.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.

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.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

I watched 'The Neighbors' when it first came on, and I thought it was hysterical. And every time I think something just tickles my funny bone, I call my agent and say, 'You know, I like this show. If they're ever looking for somebody, I'd like to work with them.'

I do more films than television, and in Mexico, they are more situational comedies - not the typical telenovela.