Television Scripts Quotes

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

I always wanted to work with David Milch.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.

I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything. It didn't matter what it was - it was just 'no.'

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of 'Suits.' It's broken into such small pieces.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

Sitcoms are bad in so many ways it's hard to say why. They can hype things as much as they want, but it's all crap, no matter how many TV Guide cover stories there are.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.