Episodes Quotes - Page 24

• One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

  Shawn Ryan

  Running, Stars, Tv Shows

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• There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

  Shawn Ryan

  Tv Shows, Cost, Want

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• There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

  Shawn Ryan

  Pressure, Economic, Exploits

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• It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

  Matt Stone

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "IGN Exclusive Interview: South Park's Matt Stone". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. October 3, 2006.

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• I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.

  Danny Pino

  Dad, Eye, Reality

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• Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

  Diane Lane

  Reality, Different, Television

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• It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, House, Scare

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• When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Finding Yourself, Different, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.

  Kelli Giddish

  Mom, Criminals, Watches

  "‘Law And Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Talks Playing Mariska Hargitay’s ‘Lover,’ James Van Der Beek Episode And More". Interview With Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Foxes, Sci Fi, Showtime

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

  Sasha Alexander

  Mean, Long, Firsts

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. August 10, 2001.

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• What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Walking Dead, Able, Wonderful

  "Dispatches From the Set – Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd". Interview on The Set, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

  Steven Bochco

  Memories, Firsts, Television

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• I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

  Andy Griffith

  Play, Mayberry, Prove

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Funny Things, People, Schedules

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

  Nick Stahl

  Character, Play, Tv Shows

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• Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

  Misha Collins

  Father, Body, Invasion

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• Star Wars Episode Three (And One Quarter): Revenge Of The Hicks

  Ron White

  Stars, Revenge, War

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• We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Los Angeles

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• Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?

  Andrew Davies

  Thinking, Plans, Audience

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• Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

  Paul Johnson

  Eye, Views, History

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• The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

  Jon Hamm

  Breathing, Differences, Television

  "Jon Hamm Gets By With Help From His 'Friends'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."

  Hayden Panettiere

  Hero, Watches, Lasts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• That's the one thing I say about the great British shows. You know, I see it on the series on HBO where the season is shortened to like 12 or 6 or whatever it is. You know there's a reason why there's a quality behind that. Because I think the writers as well as the crew and the cast do get burnt out after doing continuous episodes after and over and it feels like a factory rather than something of a creative process. And we get tapped out. That's just my opinion.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Thinking, Hbo, Creative

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film from last year. She's just an amazing actress. And I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

  Virginia Madsen

  Voice, Would Be, Like Her

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. January 7, 2009.

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