Tamron Hall Quotes

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation.

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

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

Apart from my film, I am producing TV serials and plan to make more films, too. Mine is not going to be one-film-a-year production company as such.

I would love to be on a really good show and share all the stuff that goes into creating a big TV show and get my audience into it. I think that makes it personal and makes the audience feel like they're a part of it.

Cable shows do 13 episodes. I get that. I can wrap my head around 13 episodes. You make them all, you post them all, and then you get to air them. The network cycle is way more intense. There's more episodes.

I definitely want to develop my own film or TV show at some point. I constantly strive to be as productive as possible, even when I'm not on set.

When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.

If it is a fantasy fiction, and you want to portray a story of a vampire, you have to keep the essence of the story same. But if you have to have five episodes a week, where do we get so much content from?

We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.

There's been a big black hole in the middle of the country as far as TV production goes.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

Usually if you have an idea, you have to first pitch it to a production company, get them on board, then go around and pitch to networks.

The old Johnny Carson 'Tonight Show' was great in that he was so good with the guests, and it was not about him. I think he was very smart in realizing 'I have plenty of screentime on this show. I do my monologue and we do sketches and stuff like that.' During the interview, he really made it about trying to bring the best thing out of the guest.

Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn't my favourite and I'd think, 'ach I'll shove that in this episode.'

The thing about TV is you kind of have an endless canvas. You can always keep going.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

Everyone needs to start doing interviews over email. Whether you're a journalist or a spokesperson speaking to the media, you're better off communicating questions, statements, or inquiries via email.

I'm thrilled to join the talented people at 'The Daily Line' and look forward to being a part of Versus' incredible team.

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

For shows that are hyper-serialized, it just seems to make more sense to follow a feature film model than follow a television model, which was set up more for a procedural type of show.

Doing films and TV together becomes difficult to manage when you have too many things in your hand.