Christy Romano Quotes

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

I think it's not uncommon for new television shows to spend certainly the first year, but without a doubt, like, the first eight or ten episodes, kind of figuring out what the show is.

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline.

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

It's such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.

It's rare to get a part in a show that's greenlit, let alone two shows that have been greenlit.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.

I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called 'Romantically Challenged,' and I'm going to be playing Alyssa Milano's little sister. The other actor in it is Kyle Bornheimer from 'Worst Week' - he's hilarious.

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to make sure you make it in the right place. It also depends on time commitment; a lot of directors will make a pilot, but a series is just a whole other level of involvement.

It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.