Marti Noxon Quotes

Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass.

I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and they lead a very, very positive, fun, creative environment to work in and to work with.

Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I mean, if you're on a happy set. If you're on a set where there's some sour apples, then I don't like working in television.

Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.

When you work on a Dick Wolf show, it's as if you've joined a second family.

I like working with television. I do.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I like working in television a lot. It's nice to have a place to go every day and a group of people to hang out with and work alongside with a common goal. But I think I'll always love stand-up more, because there's so much to discover. But you cannot beat television money with a stick. Not with a stick.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

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

I loved working on 'Boardwalk.' I had a very limited run on it, but I did love it and that was quality television.

TV people are great folks, but if I said, 'Come and film a beetroot-jar-opening competition,' they would.

Television is a producers' medium. There is a formula with a certain number of closeups for each show.

In tech-land, no one cares what kind of car you drive, and frankly, they're not going to find out anyway. You're not going to go to lunch together, because you're going to be sitting in your cube with a brown bag eating lunch.

I realized I loved working in television as well as film. Besides, if I hadn't been forced to look for work in TV, I'd never have gotten to work on 'Game of Thrones.'

Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.

I never thought of myself as a TV director.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

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.

The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.