A Quote by Laurence Fishburne
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
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They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.
When an actor gets a role, especially in series television where he really is the part, the audience never thinks of another actor playing that role. If they accept you in the role, then they can't separate the actor from the character.
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
In the mini-series area, we are going to have a regular year-round, weekly presence on Encore of classic mini-series and a new mini-series that we are bringing. For the time being, I think the home of mini-series will be on Encore.
Everyone who comes to the entertainment industry wants to be a film actor. Who wants to be a television actor by choice? I want to change the perception of Indian television as being the poor man's medium.
I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.
Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.
Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.
It is television which has made Saswata Chatterjee. TV as a medium of entertainment cannot and should not be belittled by a film actor.
If I like the story, I will not shy away from stepping into any medium.
Television, I would say,
isn't an advertising medium.
It's a selling medium.
Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
Even if people that I was in love with - even if Bobby Fulton inherited a billion dollars and opened All Elite Wrestling, I was never going to be the manager of The Revival on a weekly television basis ever because that would require me being on the road on a weekly basis.
As far as television is concerned, I'm just not interested in working on a series. Why should I settle for being someone's second banana? And that weekly grind is unrewarding and too demanding.
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