Hard Quote by Steve Buscemi

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

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

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked…

— Michelle MacLaren

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

Directing takes a lot of time.

— Jeff Bridges

Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.

— Michelle Borth

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have…

— Katey Sagal

There used to be a period of time when you'd shoot big studio movies where you would shoot a couple of pages a day.…

— James Ransone

First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get…

— J.H. Wyman

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

— Joanna Kerns

I can't see myself being a television director unless it's for a two-hour movie.

— Billy Bob Thornton

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours…

— Andrew Lau