Steve Buscemi Quotes

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes.

In daytime, you're shooting an episode a day, which is on average about 90 pages of script a day. That is very hectic. On '90210,' you get to work through it a little more. You're not just flying through it just to get it done.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

In features, we're languid: we shoot one or two scenes over, like, three days. In TV, the pace is so different. You're shooting ten scenes a day, going way into the future or way back into the past. It's complete madness, and I'm just trying to keep up with this really electric pace.

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.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

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

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is.

I intend to do more directing TV.

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

Normally, a TV show shoots episodically.

Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.

I started directing on 'The Wire.'

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.