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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 start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

'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.

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.

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

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

When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

I've been working in television for a long time, and I know all aspects of television.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.

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

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

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.

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

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

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of 'Leverage' with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us.

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

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 hate making TV documentaries.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.