In the last 5 years, we’ve had Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, Woody Allen, Alfonso Cuaron, Noah Baumbach, Spike Lee, and many more making the jump to the small screen. Why? Because the middle-ground to direct the kind of films they used to make on the big screen fell out. You know, the oft-mentioned mid-budget movie, which has always been more interested in character-oriented drama than CGI-dominated nonsense.
And for that, we should be grateful TV picked up the slack. And yet, there is a negative to TV’s takeover; the adult-driven 2-hour movie is an art form. You can herald the artistic merits of serialized television all you want, but there is something exciting about watching a 2-hour drama and not having the thought of setting aside committed time to binge-watch it.
Source: Wes Anderson on Why Cinema Will Always Be Better Than Television — World of Reel