Television Constraints Quotes

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incredibly annoyed because I wanted to do more television and films and the only thing that people could ever see me in was a recreation of what I had done.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.