Justin Theroux Quotes

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'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

I think the way I sort of approach it is, you just sort of keep your head down and focus on what you are doing and making shows that people will want to see on Thursday night.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

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

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

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

I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.

When I create and write for TV, I build universes that will have arcs lasting seasons, whereas theatre allows me to explore storylines that will open up for two hours or less. Both are wonderfully fulfilling, but they couldn't be more different.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

In TV, you're a 'writer for hire.' That means you're trying to guess what your boss wants and delivering that story. There's a lot of spitballing. The big thing is 'breaking story,' which means coming up with a story. You do it by episode and put it all up on a board.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for.

I want to create content for TV and films.

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

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