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Quick question. Is it weird for me to have absolutely no desire to work in film? I mean, absolutely NONE. My hope has always been to work in television. There's just something about it that fascinates me like nothing else.

With a feature, you've got your audience for about two hours. (Six if you make a trilogy.) With television, you've got them every week, for half an hour. (My ideal show would have them for an hour, but I can hammer out the details later.) That leaves (to me) a lot more time for them to fall in love with the characters the writer creates. That's what I want. I want to create things that make people feel the way that those created by my inspirations made me feel....

Strange, or just a minority?
 

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Not weird at all. It's just your personal preference.

Take a look at J.J. Abrams. (Creator of Lost, Alias, Felicity.) His shows are more interesting to me than any movie, and they're mostly character-based, especially Lost.

His success on the small screen is leading him to the silver, as he's directing the next Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise, but as a writer I think his storylines are better fit for longer periods of time like television.
 

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Hi TwoKeys,

Nice to e-meet you! There's an article in the Feb 14 & 21 New Yorker you might enjoy. It's a profile of David Milch, writer for NYPD and Deadwood, called The Misfit and authored by Mark Singer.

Milch is a guy who loves writing for TV!
 

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Hi Two Keys--welcome to the AW Galaxy. Good question. T.V. does have a regular (even fanatical) fan base. Usually, great T.V. personalities turn out to be even greater discoveries for feature films. So, if you were a great T.V. personality, would you go kicking and screaming into a huge feature film release if you were contracted by Universal or 20th? Why not want the best of both worlds?

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