Best 6 quotes of Timothy Hutton on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.