Travis Beacham Quotes

There are great characters on television.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

Let me complain-it's good for television.

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.

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

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.

My day job is making TV shows.

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

Film has always been where my heart is.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

I love the medium of film.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.'

Television was almost a natural for me.