They all matter to me, whether I’m working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I’m the star of my own TV series – I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.
One of the first movies I ever saw was ‘Batman,’ based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It’s caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.
The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, – except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
To all my soap fans out there, my horror fanatics, comedy lovers, I will tell you this: ‘Death Valley’ is an action-packed drama, comedic, horror TV series that has a non-stop adventure in each episode. It’s like a huge pot of Texas gumbo. If you like all four of those genres, then you’ll love this show.
I like to do TV series. I think they’re so comfortable. You’re doing the same part every week.
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series ‘M*A*S*H,’ and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it’s crazy; it’s a marathon.
I’d been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I’m not a TV guy.
I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I’m mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.
I just don’t want to work as hard as you have to for a TV series.
I can’t say I’m sorry to see that the name ‘Nigel’ is dying out, but I’d be happier if it wasn’t being replaced by made-up names out of TV series ‘Game Of Thrones.’
When you’re confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn’t affect me. I got out in time.
You know, you never say never because before I did ‘ER,’ I always said ‘I’ll never do a TV series,’ so that’s what I said.
I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.
In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don’t require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don’t.
I’ve now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You haven’t quite banked the one you just wrapped and are wondering, ‘Did I do that right?’ ‘Could I have done that better?’
I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn’t want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
I started out on the stage, then I had a great career in television for quite a few years. The good news about a TV series is that they give you a certain amount of fame and money. The bad news is that you’re in people’s living rooms every week and get associated with a particular character.
I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
I’m on a never-ending quest to get back on a TV series, and I want to get on ‘The Walking Dead.’
I get very, very bored by TV series or TV movies. But when you see great acrobats on TV, my eyes stick to the screen. I can watch them forever.
Whenever we start a new TV series, there’s also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.
The phone conversations about a possible TV series of ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’ stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings.
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn’t that show an incredible attention span?
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
I wasn’t so sure about signing up for ‘Law & Order.’ I liked the show, but another TV series? I’ll tell you, though, it’s been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.
Ideally I’d like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I’ve been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn’t work out. When the time and project are right, it’ll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it’s not a race; there’s no finish line.
I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don’t do a regular TV series because I don’t want to be overexposed.
I kind of joke that creating franchises is a lot like directing pilot episodes of TV series. You set a look and feel and kind of pass it on.
I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
I’m truly excited to be a part of ‘Tu Mere Agal Bagal Hai’ and SAB TV. This will be my first tryst with a comedy TV series on the small screen.
Before ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I’d directed a short called ‘Man vs. Monday’ that I sent out to all the festivals just to show I can direct and produce. It was also a template to launch a movie or a TV series.
I don’t really watch TV series because I don’t want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
I don’t know the secret of ‘Mission: Impossible”s success. If I did, I’d have probably produced a couple of TV series, made myself rich, and retired!
The way I look at it, you’ve got to quit your TV series before they’ll consider you in movies.
I enjoy making feature films, but I’d rather be in a good TV series than mediocre movies.
I can’t imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I’m ancient. It wasn’t abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.
I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it’s because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it’s usually the beginning of the end.
I don’t make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They’re different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it’s all the same to me.
‘Fire Walk With Me’ was so divisive because the tone was so different than the TV series. But now television is almost more of a free medium than cinema.
There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it’s like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren’t any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
Those who have not seen wrestling before have probably tuned in to ‘Lucha Underground’ and go, ‘Whoa! This is a TV series turned into wrestling.’
I’d rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
If we look at Sky, the clientele and subscription, I think you see the consumer is tired of paying for a bundle. To pay £70 for 200 channels when maybe they just want to watch sports or football, and maybe some movies or TV series.
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