Sarah Pinborough Quotes

When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

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

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

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

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

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.

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

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.

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