Tvs Quotes - Page 28

• It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."

  Steven Yeun

  Tv Shows, Being Thankful, Gigs

  Source: collider.com

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• If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Instinct, Ifs

  "Joe Eszterhas". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

  Ben Richards

  Kids, Thinking, Novelists

  "Ben Richards Exclusive Interview OUTCASTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

  Indira Varma

  Editors, Directors, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

  Darren Shahlavi

  Tv Shows, Stuff, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.

  Will Gluck

  Thinking, Genre Is, Tv Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

  Andy Cohen

  Real, Thinking, Self

  "Andy Cohen shares his days and nights in new book". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.washingtontimes.com. November 12, 2014.

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• People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.

  Will Gluck

  Real, People, Dumb

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.

  Marc Webb

  Drama, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

  Marc Webb

  Drama, Character, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Looks, Problem

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Laughter, Writing, Phones

  Source: collider.com

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• Yeah, when you work with somebody that famous everybody wants to know what are they like or - but I know some of the movies that I know because they're more like NOBODY'S FOOL or like that, because I don't really watch the big R movies, I haven't really seen them so much. I loved him [Bruce Willis] from his TV show and some of the smaller movies he's done. The bigger movies I start to space out in, like, there just so, I don't really watch those kind of movies so much.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Tv Shows, Space, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Writing, Play, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy for the little trailer you're going to do, you'll come out and show it to us and we set you up to go edit it." I turned it on and it was just this hardcore film and I was like, "Oh my God, I've fallen down the rabbit hole."

  Julie Davis

  Writing, Office, Rabbits

  Source: collider.com

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• Every action project you take, whether it be a movie or TV series, is always different and a lot of people don't really know how big a difference it is. It's a different style of fighting, a different tempo and all of that.

  Maggie Q

  Fighting, Differences, People

  Source: collider.com

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• When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.

  Maggie Q

  Asia, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Usually, when you talk about serialized TV, you're talking about one specific beat that you play, over and over again.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Talking, Play, Beats

  "Boris Kodjoe Interview UNDERCOVERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2010.

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• It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.

  Zak Penn

  Tv Shows, Goes On, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."

  Zak Penn

  Directors, Different, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.

  Zak Penn

  Hands, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.

  Zak Penn

  People, Television, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• Every area had their own superstar. The TV was not national, it was localized. So you could develop in one place, or the next place and be a better star, go to the next place and be a superstar.

  George Steele

  Stars, Next, Superstar

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little hello to the filmmakers, and that kind of back and forth dialogue between artists that say, "I loved your movie. I was influenced by your movie. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't be thinking of that. Do my TV show and then one day I'll make a movie where I can play with some of the visual themes in "Force Majeure."

  Jill Soloway

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.

  Sam Huntington

  Years, Tv Shows, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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