Marshall Herskovitz Quotes

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

'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.

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

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.

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

On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.

It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.