Cinema Quote by Alan Taylor

Television is a director's medium.

— Jackie Coogan

The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV…

— Jason Reitman

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

— Charlie Hunnam

TV is more the director's medium. You can be edited right out.

— Leslie Uggams

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where…

— Zak Penn

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with…

— Patrick Dempsey

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and…

— Brian Baumgartner

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

— Shonda Rhimes

The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when…

— James L. Brooks

TV is a writer's medium.

— Sara Ramirez

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

— Christopher Eccleston

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility…

— Jason Bateman