Diablo Cody Quotes

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.

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

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

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

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

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

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.

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.'

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

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

Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.

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.

With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling.

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

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.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

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

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.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.