Episodes Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

  Andy Samberg

  Night, Rapper, Eight

  "Rick Ross & Andy Samberg: Riding The Wavy Train". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. May 23, 2011.

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• The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.” True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.

  Anthony Lane

  Revenge, Two, Dying

  "Space Case". www.newyorker.com. May 23, 2005.

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• The interpretive element of "Lost," the fact that you immediately need as soon as the episode is over to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion, that's the bread and butter of the show.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Community, Elements

  "Talking 'Lost' with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year - to really dissect the budget.

  Tyra Banks

  Eye, Years, Goal

  "Celebrity 100: Tyra Banks On It". Interview with Kiri Blakeley, www.forbes.com. July 03, 2006.

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• I actually will always stop and watch [Friends episodes], not for the whole thing, but usually because I've forgotten a lot of the episodes. It's sort of fun for a second, I'm like, what's this one? And sometimes it comes back to me. I always know what year it was by what length my hair was or what color.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Fun, Hair, Color

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• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mean, Idols, Voice

  "Beyonce and Christina Bare All in W Magazine". www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

  Steven Moffat

  Challenges, Looks, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• You might be a redneck if an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Texas, Might

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• Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

  John Dykstra

  Boys, Lord, Rings

  The 77th Annual Academy Awards, www.imdb.com. February 27, 2005.

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• The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many years, dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave crew of the Enterprise set out, wearing pajamas, to explore the boundless voids of space, which turned out to be as densely populated as Queens, New York. Virtually every planet they found was inhabited, usually by evil beings with cheap costumes and Russian accents, so finally the brave crew of the Enterprise returned to Earth to gain weight and make movies.

  Dave Barry

  Stars, Queens, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.270, Ballantine Books

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• Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

  Dan Futterman

  Writing, Mind, Actors

  "Post-Mortem: Co-showrunner Dan Futterman weighs in on the ‘Gracepoint’ killer reveal". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 12, 2014.

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• Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

  Christian Cooke

  Streaming, Feels, Format

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that you've probably got two hours. So why wouldn't you, if you're enjoying it not want to watch the other one? And so, this is the future. Ten episodes at once is what everyone wants, and then it's up to you how you spread those out

  Christian Cooke

  Two, Watches, Up To You

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people by doing practically nothing and terrifying the sh*t out of you. He is the most astonishingly subtle performer with the most incredibly keen sense of what his face can do and how his words can form. He has a mission. Nothing is by chance. I truly believe as long as we have success in seasons that Mads will become the defining face of Hannibal Lecter.

  David Slade

  Believe, Long, People

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• Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.

  Alfred Gough

  Adventure, Fighting, Eight

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.

  Emmy Rossum

  People, Feedback, Direct

  Source: collider.com

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• In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future.

  Andrew Kreisberg

  Events, Individual, Certain Knowledge

  Source: collider.com

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• You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down the road. One single episode that might seem so far removed from what you might end up doing in the future might spark somebody's memory bank. Just one little line you said or a look you gave might be what they want to pursue with a character.

  Amanda Schull

  Jobs, Memories, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

  Atom Egoyan

  Grief, People, Choices

  "Writer/Director Atom Egoyan Talks THE CAPTIVE, His Writing Process, the Non-Linear Narrative, Dark Material, REMEMBER, and More". collider.com. December 10, 2014.

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• There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV show is how to write to your cast. You write the show at the beginning with certain voices in your head and you have a way that you think the characters will be, and then you have an actor go out there, and you start watching dailies and episodes. Then, you start realizing what they can do and what they can't do, what they're good at and what they're not so good at, how they say things and what fits in their mouth, and you start tailoring the voice of the show to your cast.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve the problem. It stacks the cards, and in nine cases out of ten, it eliminates at least two useful suspects. The only effective love interest is that which creates a personal hazard for the detective - but which, at the same time, you instinctively feel to be a mere episode. A really good detective never gets married.

  Raymond Chandler

  Struggle, Two, Nine

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.

  Peter Capaldi

  Life Changing, Next Week, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Motherhood, Years, Daddy

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Way, Firsts

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• I like doing the comedic episodes because it's refreshing. I enjoy doing comedic things and physical comedy. It's fun.

  Emily Deschanel

  Fun, Comedy, Refreshing

  "Emily Deschanel Talks BONES Season 8, Brennan Getting Shot, and Her Hope to Direct an Episode". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 11, 2013.

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