Reed Morano Quotes

When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.

'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.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

Working on 'Roadies' has been a fantastic experience.

Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the air. There's of course director and cast commentary on each episode on the DVD. We had a blast recording that.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

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

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

In TV, you have no time and sort of just carpet bomb the scene with as many angles as possible as quickly as possible and find it in the edit.

In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

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.

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

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.

In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.

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.

In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

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

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.