Bryan Cranston Quotes

I've had so much fun working on 'Shameless.'

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'

Making commercial cinema is very tough.

You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much.

We have table reads for every episode of 'Billions.' The core cast is smaller than the core cast on 'Orange Is the New Black,' so in that sense, it has more of a theater vibe.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

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

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

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

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

I'm delighted to be joining the cast of 'The Fall' for what is going to be an exciting and gripping second series.