Elia Kazan Quotes

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

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.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

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

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

I am delighted just to work on a good movie, no matter what the medium is.

Movies are not a growth business.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

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.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

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

I like both movies and TV, for different reasons. Films are amazing. It's so historic and exciting. Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

Cinema is like dream.

I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

TV is the rat race of the century.

The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.