Terence Winter Quotes

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

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

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

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

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 like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'

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.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

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 didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.