Scott M. Gimple Quotes

I feel like I don't have much of a preference. With TV, it's just a longer process, so you need to be more sure that you really want to be involved in it for a longer time than you would be with film.

When we work for daily soaps, it is very time consuming: like, we work for 12-14 hours. But, doing a show that's interesting makes it worth it.

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

I would love to do a television show in New York City.

On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.

I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.

I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.

I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like. I was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, which is not my idea of folk art; but I really enjoyed making it, and everyone was really nice.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

I loved doing 'Gilmore Girls.' I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I'd do anything with her.

I would love to do more television.

Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air.

I really love the TV thing because it's a little of the best of all worlds. You have a sense of a family and work with the same people over the seasons.

'Spooks' was unique. It took up such a lot of your life - I think we did 10 episodes for the first few seasons. That's six months of your life.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.

I can say that. I have a television show.

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

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.