"golden age of television"

[excerpts from an interview with Lawrence Kasdan] --

Q:  What's the first thing you do when you sit down to write a new script?

LK:  There's a sense of starting the whole learning process over again, doing it for the first time every day.  You may have some built-up confidence, but every day is a new start.  Of course, you don't want it to be that way.  You want to have left off (the day before) knowing exactly what to do.  But it's never like that.  It's always, "How do I do this?"  "How can I achieve it?"  Every script is a little scary.

Q:  Do you ever get writer's block?

LK:  I get it once an hour.  But you power through.  Sometimes the work you do to power through comes out to be not very good.  Sometimes it's better than you think it is.  This happens in writing and directing all the time.  Sometimes we judge it incorrectly at the moment of doing.

Q:  Many screenwriters today are working in television.  Have you considered television?

LK:  Definitely.  Clearly the best stuff is being done on television.  Hopes of getting a good movie made are so slim these days.  Everything has moved away from drama and people and emotion and the inquiry into human behavior.  Basically the studios won't make a movie about that.  So that whole world is gone where you can explore things.  TV is not like that.  This is the golden age of television, and everything you're interested in is happening on television.
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That's interesting because I think they used to call the 1950s the "golden age of television."  They had some good dramas and televised versions of famous plays etc.  Edward R. Murrow.

Maybe when schlock takes over in one area of the arts, the talent migrates to another area. 
From Movies to Television.
From Television to Stage.
From Stage back to Movies.

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When I listen to Lawrence Kasdan speak, I hear no beguiling accent, so was surprised to read that he grew up in West Virginia -- Wheeling, and Morgantown.  He has -- I don't know -- his own accent...that of thoughtful, academic-type writer and film director. ...

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