Steven Knight Quotes

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great content on this thing, that big-screen TV is not a huge value to you, even though it has the best picture on the planet.

At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

There's a pace in TV I like.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

I think 'Avatar' is much more appropriate to high frame rates because it's like a ride, and it's futuristic, and vividness and sharp edges and clarity would be an asset.

I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.

I think if you're watching 'Dumb and Dumber,' I don't know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you're watching 'Event Horizon,' 'Death Race,' 'Alien vs. Predator' I mean, I think these movies are definitely enhanced by the Blu-ray experience.

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.

Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.

Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

Television is on a small screen, inside someone's living room, so you have to grab their attention while they are having dinner or cooking or doing something else.

I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.

In Pakistan, our medium is the small screen. We don't make many films, and hardly have theaters. A majority of people seek entertainment while sitting at home and TV gives it to them, so we excel on that part.

People in my family don't watch films that much.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.