Stephen Daldry Quotes

I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that I don't 'know' that I necessarily really know what it's like to do a regular show.

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

I would love to produce a film.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

When I was a teenager, I worked on a show that was about a family.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.

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.

I want to create content for TV and films.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I think a big bucket list item for me and Jonathan is to produce some of our own scripted films and series.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.