Timothy Hutton famous quotes

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it.
-- Timothy Hutton

#Writing #Tv Shows #People

Even in the off season, people are streaming the show or buying the DVD sets, and new audience comes to Leverage every year weve been doing it.
-- Timothy Hutton

#Years #Dvds #People

In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.
-- Timothy Hutton

#Jobs #Giving #Justice

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.
-- Timothy Hutton

#People #Exes

I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.
-- Timothy Hutton

#Girlfriend #People #Guy

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.
-- Timothy Hutton

#Feels

You never know how things work and what exactly is going to grab an audience. Sometimes even the best material and the best collection of people interpreting that material just for some reason doesn't fly with people. There are a lot of TV shows or movies that maybe aren't as good as others that do work when it comes to finding an audience. It's a mystery, that whole thing. If somebody figured it out, this would be quite a great industry.
-- Timothy Hutton

#People #Mystery #Sometimes

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.