Shane Dawson Quotes

If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

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

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

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

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

I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

When I first found out what a show runner was, I thought it was the strangest job I had heard of in my life.

When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read a script, it was a bizarre, too-dark, genre-less thing that no one wanted to make.

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.

I was pretty happy with what we were able to do on 'SmackDown.' It was one of the best, most fun runs of my career because it was essentially a new show.

There are a lot of opportunities in journalism that are like that, where if you have good ideas and really care about something, and you persist, you can get them. Show up in person. Write that extra email. It goes much farther than people realize.

I think that because television is shot on a really fast schedule, and it gets piped into your home on a smaller screen, it's much more about character and dialogue in a lot of cases than the movies are.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I've been working in television for a long time, and I know all aspects of television.

In a fantasy show, you can't be random with creative ideas. So that is a drawback for our industry. Since it is daily, with fantasy shows, you need to stick to the script. If you don't, it will become saas-bahu show.

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.