TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.
With 'Sharknado,' they've got a great mix of TV and film. This is a film that has film impact in the TV medium.
With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
TV has always been a very strong and powerful medium for women.
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.
Because John Cassavetes was so terrific in live TV, a lot of his friends had not been able to participate in that yet and so they asked if he would gather with them at night when I was at the play and tell them what live TV was like, what you had to adjust to because it was its own medium - it had many things you had to be aware of.
The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.
I have always been known for my glamour but I wanted to do something strong and substantial on TV, which is a woman dominated medium.
I am very excited about the TV medium and the Amazon-Netflix medium. It has been so liberating to work on these formats.
What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.
You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.
Yes, TV is the dominant medium in Pakistan, but it was a conscious decision to have an Indian film as my first release. Being launched in an Indian film with a great script, character, and music is half the battle won. The rest is destiny.
All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
