Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

It's not about creating 22 episodes indefinitely for as long as you can do.

I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.

I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show but, like everybody else, trying to find something good.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

ABC Family is ready to get a new image for themselves, and I think 'Greek' really kind of started that change.

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

I've been a huge fan of the cable network FX for a very, very long time. I think their brand of comedy is incredible. For me, as an audience member, that's a go-to channel.