Marcia Clark Quotes

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers.

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.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.

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

TV is the place that writers want to be.

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

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

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

I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.

I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids' show called 'Pepper Ann.'

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I actually worked on the pilot of 'The Chase' and wrote the questions on it.

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

I'm not a Larry David. I don't have a 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and a 'Seinfeld' in me.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

I started putting together long-form projects, say, 22 minutes for a sitcom and 42 minutes or something like that for an hour-long show. I didn't feel like it was groundbreaking, nor would anyone think it was groundbreaking now, but at the time, people reacted like it was.