Lee Tergesen Quotes

There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

That's all folks!

I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

I'd run the gamut of emotions on 'Falcon Crest.' When the show folded, I was ready to move on.

I'm very very high on 'Ozark.' I was very excited about it. The season three finale blew my mind.

I do realize that television shows end.

After 'Versace' and 'American Horror Story,' if that was the end of the line, then I can go happy.

The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?"

To me, 'Glee' is totally fantastic.

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

But it was an ending.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

I'm sorry to see it end.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Nerves just mean that you care.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.