Daniela Bobadilla Quotes

Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.

Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour.

Usually on a film set it's making sure that everyone is there for their scene, and the moment their scene is over they disappear.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

In daytime, you're shooting an episode a day, which is on average about 90 pages of script a day. That is very hectic. On '90210,' you get to work through it a little more. You're not just flying through it just to get it done.

Normally, a TV show shoots episodically.

When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.

The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When you're shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with 'Serenity,' we could shoot one scene all day long.

Filming a movie is different from a TV show because film is a lot quicker, you get to see the character progress and grow all in one script, and in television, you wait for a weekly update on each character.