COMPLEX.COM INTERVIEWS SETH MACFARLANE ABOUT “TED”

The peeps over at Complex.com were lucky enough to score an interview with the awesome Seth MacFarlane who was on tap to talk all things Ted. In the interview, he mentions the differences between working in television and in film:

Well, there are advantages in both. I think it’s worth keeping a hand in both forms of media. With television, you really have, I suppose, an opportunity to make more of an impact with your characters; I feel like, as important as characters are in film, if you really want to take a simplistic view of it, you can say that television is character-based and film is premise-based.

That’s not to undersell the value of characters in movies, obviously, but in the simplest form that might be an argument that you can make. The immediacy of television is definitely appealing; in the time it takes to get a movie off the ground and get it made, you can create and launch a television series—everything just happens faster.

With movies, the slowness of production is both an advantage and a disadvantage. It’s an advantage in that you really have time to perfect each shot in ways that you can’t on TV. But at times there’s a sense of, All lright, let’s just get this thing out there—we’ve been working on this forever, let’s get it in front of some people, for God’s sake. So, for me, I would like to keep a hand in both from here on out. You could never do a character like Ted on television, at least not now—maybe in 10 years or so.

You can check out the rest of the interview here. Ted is Seth MacFarlane’s feature film debut and its set to hit theaters June 29th, 2012. You can check out the trailer here and keep coming back as we get closer to the release we will have a bunch more clips and awesomeness.