Gavin O'Connor Quotes

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

My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

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've had so much fun working on 'Shameless.'

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

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.

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

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

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

My day job is making TV shows.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

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

I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout a two to three month film shoot. Whereas TV, especially half hour, is like doing a play a week or live theater.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.