Tv Script Quotes

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

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

Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

'V' had just been cancelled; I was looking for a job, and the 'Homeland' script came across my desk. I loved it immediately, although I thought it would end up being discovered gradually - a slow-burner, like 'The Wire.'

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.

My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know, if it's a 30-minute sitcom, then it's a 35-page script or something like that.

The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.