Chandler Riggs Quotes

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.

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers.

I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?'

Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won't give my TV show. I put it in my live show.

In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven't seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they're going to tell.

I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season.

There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.

I actually worked on the pilot of 'The Chase' and wrote the questions on it.

Doing a series of 'Facejacker' takes about nine months. It's pretty intense.

'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.

The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.

I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

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

'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.

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

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.