Big Quote by Chris Burke

TV's so quick. You make a choice and you do it, and if the director thinks that's wrong then you make another choice and…

— Mathew Horne

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and…

— Michael Haneke

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

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

— Leslie Uggams

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

— Robert Carlyle

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

— Natalie Portman

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be…

— Rose Byrne

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing,…

— Michael J. Bassett

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle…

— Mark Sheppard

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show…

— Hiro Murai

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can…

— John Polson

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I…

— John Frankenheimer