Thomas Middleditch Quotes

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

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

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.

Cable shows do 13 episodes. I get that. I can wrap my head around 13 episodes. You make them all, you post them all, and then you get to air them. The network cycle is way more intense. There's more episodes.

Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

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

Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.

Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.

I kind of joke that creating franchises is a lot like directing pilot episodes of TV series. You set a look and feel and kind of pass it on.

Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was my first series, so I didn't know anything about that when I started. I just assumed it was normal to make 26 episodes a year on a seven-day shooting schedule.

Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.

I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over the course of 22 episodes, we were able to tell the stories of these people. We had a beginning and middle and end, and as we went on, you changed every week.

The very design of 'Breaking Bad' was that it was a finite, close-ended series.

I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.

There are so many shows that go on endlessly until they lose their original spark, or mysteries that are cancelled before they ever get a chance to payoff.

I always designed 'Gravity Falls' to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.

'Spooks' was unique. It took up such a lot of your life - I think we did 10 episodes for the first few seasons. That's six months of your life.

We were all expecting to finish [Downton Abbey] after Series 1, actually. And then, it got extended to Series 3, and that's when two of our much loved and much missed friends left. And then, it was going to be done with Series 5, but Julian Fellowes said, "I'd like to do one more." So it's been a series of extensions, rather than wondering how much longer we can go on for.

It's so weird for me to be watching The Good Wife while I'm still shooting The Good Wife.