Breathing Quote by Jon Hamm

Directing a television episode is no joke, and it's incredibly difficult and especially when you're acting in it as well.

— Brian J. Smith

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

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

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

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

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

There are so many factors that go into directing. It's honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.

— Melanie Scrofano

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

— Steve Buscemi

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.

— Steven Knight

If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources…

— Cary Fukunaga

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

— Sean Penn

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