James Darren Quotes

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

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

We love doing commercial and TV show work.

Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.

I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

I'm really proud of this show I did called 'I Just Want My Pants Back.' I was very proud of my work on the show and such a huge fan of everybody involved.

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I intend to do more directing TV.

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