Whit Stillman Quotes

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

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

Television is a producers' medium. There is a formula with a certain number of closeups for each show.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

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

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

With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling.

I want to create content for TV and films.

With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

I love to be in the entertainment space, and my aim is to create new content and entertain people, whether it's in movies or on TV.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

In making YouTube videos, you can't just be an actor, you have to also know the shots and how to write.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

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.

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.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.