Julia Hartz Quotes

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Developing a series is a next step for me.

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

It's such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.

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

As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.

What I do know is how difficult it is in this industry to get a show on the air. There's so many different stages: getting a script bought by the network, then getting a pilot made and having that pilot go to series, and then, when that series gets on the air, having people watch it.

It's rare to get a part in a show that's greenlit, let alone two shows that have been greenlit.

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

I intend to do more directing TV.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.

The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.