Michael Spiller Quotes

Judd Apatow, together with me and Lena, we're all the showrunners of 'Girls.'

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

I started directing on 'The Wire.'

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.'

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

'Ray Donovan' is such a revelation to everybody who's working on it, and it's only getting better.

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.

I have a hit TV show.

I loved 'The West Wing'; it's my favourite-ever television show.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.

The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

I was a huge fan of 'Fargo.' I binge-watched the first two seasons in a couple of weeks. I loved that series.

We shoot 'Hustle' for 12 to 16 weeks, so that's how long I'm here each year. I've always loved London. I lived here for three years back in the Seventies, when I did a TV series, 'The Protectors,' for Lew Grade.

I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'

I left 'How I Met Your Mother' and jumped right onto an episode of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.,' the TV show. I wrapped, and the next day I was on set shooting 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'

I would love to work on another installment of 'Gilmore Girls.'

I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'

As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, 'Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?' It's '12 Monkeys,' and '12 Monkeys' is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino gave me such a gift with 'Bunheads,' and to give me this gift of going on 'Gilmore Girls' was beyond. It was awesome.

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of 'Suits.' It's broken into such small pieces.

Before 'Dancing with the Stars,' I'd directed a short called 'Man vs. Monday' that I sent out to all the festivals just to show I can direct and produce. It was also a template to launch a movie or a TV series.