Scott Speedman Quotes

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

Women drive network television.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

The development process is not that simple... When I started working at Fox in '92, the company had decided that dramas were dead: they weren't viable businesses and because newsmagazines were so efficient to produce and financially so much more tolerable than a drama. So that year, our company developed very few dramas.

I am very excited about the TV medium and the Amazon-Netflix medium. It has been so liberating to work on these formats.

There is a huge market ready to accept good Tamil content.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.

Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.

There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.

I definitely want to branch into television and mainstream.

We were an entertainment brand, and if we were going to compete in an era of incredible growth in the cable industry, I felt we actually needed to be entertaining.

I like working with television. I do.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

I trust most people. Not producers.