Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Quotes

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

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.

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

Filming movies and TV are vastly different. Film is more of slower pace. You usually have more time to develop characters, and it sometimes takes up to 3 months to film one movie. Sometimes you'll spend half the day filming one scene. TV moves much faster. It takes about 10 days to film an episode.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

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.

When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.

My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

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

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.

I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'