Terence Winter Quotes

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

Digitisation will rather consolidate the broadcasting industry in India because once the cable is digitized, then naturally all the programmers can showcase their programming.

I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.

Let me complain-it's good for television.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

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

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

I think that network TV is going to either have to reinvent itself or it's going to have to be more competitive - there are just so many options now with streaming and everything.

It's not about creating 22 episodes indefinitely for as long as you can do.

Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.

Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.

As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.

I'm interested in all forms of content, including Internet and gaming. On the TV side, cable has sparked a renaissance of the medium and that will continue for storytellers.