Eli Roth Quotes

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

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

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.

I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that I don't 'know' that I necessarily really know what it's like to do a regular show.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

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

Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

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

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

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.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.