Meredith Vieira Quotes

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

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

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to contribute to, people approach me and say, 'Hey, would you like to do this?' I laugh out loud and say, 'Yes, that'd be funny.' Or, I'm very moved by what I read and say, 'Yes. How can I help you?'

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

Apart from my film, I am producing TV serials and plan to make more films, too. Mine is not going to be one-film-a-year production company as such.

The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.

I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise that I needed to not just be a writer, but a producer, to see my work up on the screen the way I wanted it to look and play.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.

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

We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.

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.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.