Stephanie Savage Quotes

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing up on set, making sure I know my lines and making sure I know what I'm bringing to the character. When I'm a creator and executive producer, I have to worry about the whole thing.

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to make sure you make it in the right place. It also depends on time commitment; a lot of directors will make a pilot, but a series is just a whole other level of involvement.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.

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

In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium.

It's great being a producer! Why am I wasting my career writing and directing? Those are actual jobs in which you work. Being a producer, it's kind of like you just go to the set, yell at a couple of people, and then stay up all night dancing in nightclubs.