Katherine Kelly Quotes

Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

If you want to know what's going on in America, you have to watch soap operas.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

Ever since 'Jericho,' I've loved these big-idea shows.

I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. Wodehouse piece of advice: "Try to give pleasure with every sentence."

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?'

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.