Michael Spiller 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.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

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

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

I intend to do more directing TV.

No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.

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

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

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

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

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

Being on a show like 'Fear the Walking Dead,' I started to learn more about camera work, learn more about the way the crew operates, and had more of a stronger opinion on how I think a television director can operate in the healthiest way.

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

The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

Developing a series is a next step for me.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.