Bill Hader Quotes

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

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

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

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

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.

My first TV job was on an episode of 'Hannah Montana'... Since then, I've been fortunate to end up on shows that are just such a high quality, where the writing and material is incredible.

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone a whole scene or the full episode.

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

I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.

The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little I said, 'I want to be on a reality show when I grow up.' They didn't even have them then, you know?

Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'

My son works as a production assistant in television.

I imagine when you're making a reality show with a whole crew, it's bound to get complicated.

The 'Love Island' team are the best in the business.

I never thought of myself as a TV director.

I had a job on a Spike TV show called 'Fresh Baked Video Games.' I was the animation producer/kind of a writer, but I couldn't get anything through.

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.

As a host, I did 'Khatron Ke Khiladi,' and it was a learning experience.

If someone at VH1, the powers that be, said, 'Shaunie, we want you to completely do your family show,' would I do cartwheels on over to it? Absolutely, because that is probably the most fun I've ever had shooting anything ever so I would totally be fine with that and just do my EP but, yeah.