This is an excerpt from a rather compelling article in today's LA Times:
John Ridley, a producer on the NBC series "Third Watch,"
says that after working in TV, "I look at writing studio movies the way I look at shining shoes." He once found himself working on a film for which there were 12 people in a room, all giving him notes. "You get notes from the producers and the actors and the actors' fitness trainers," says Ridley, who wrote the original script for "Three Kings." "In TV, the writer is in charge, so you have a singularity of vision, which is why you can see hours and hours of great TV but maybe only two or three great films each year."
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John Ridley, a producer on the NBC series "Third Watch,"
says that after working in TV, "I look at writing studio movies the way I look at shining shoes." He once found himself working on a film for which there were 12 people in a room, all giving him notes. "You get notes from the producers and the actors and the actors' fitness trainers," says Ridley, who wrote the original script for "Three Kings." "In TV, the writer is in charge, so you have a singularity of vision, which is why you can see hours and hours of great TV but maybe only two or three great films each year."
www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-TV-X!ArticleDetail-45614,00.html
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