Television Editing Quotes

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.

I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.

If you had ever told me that the finest film work was going to be done on television, I wouldn't have believed it.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick really changed the way one-hour television looked and the depth of how deep it could cut emotionally.

In television, the cuts are so quick: bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! I want to shoot two people and sit there for eight minutes and watch them. I've got a lot to learn about television and about the best ways to tell stories directorially in that medium.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

I love working in television and in comedy, so whenever there's an opportunity to work on a TV sitcom, I'm like, 'Yes please!'

I started directing on 'The Wire.'

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.

I was fortunate to work on a few episodes of 'Barry' right before we shot 'Atlanta.' That was where I got my training wheels for action coverage.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're as frenetic as possible, while replicating your movement so you're giving the editor more opportunity to cut within the different takes. If you're so crazy that you're sitting in one take and standing in another, the editor can only choose one take or the other. But if you can wrangle yourself into the same spot over and over, then you give them more choices for you.

More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of 'The Sopranos,' which is some of the most sophisticated writing I've ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I've ever seen - and it's a TV show.

I'm the field producer whose job it is to manipulate the contestants to get them to do what we really want them to do to get the footage to make the show.