Production Risk Quotes

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

I think most people who were involved with television will tell you, if given a season or given a 13-episode order and getting those episodes on the air, and if viewers don't come, I think most people will tell you they'd walk away. They feel they were given a fair shake, and if viewers didn't come, they didn't come.

When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

If you lost a major actor because of a broken jaw, the project collapses.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.