Sophie Rundle Quotes

What's so cool about movies is once you're done with the movie, you put it away and come up with a whole new different idea with different characters and a different world. But in TV, you build these characters, and you build this world, and then you're there for however long you do the show.

We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.

For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.

That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.

Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.

In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

In film and theater, you know the story and the journey from beginning to end, but with TV, you can keep peeling away layers and exploring a new world each week.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.

The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.

What was important for 'Legacies' to actually be a successful show is that we had to introduce new mythology.

Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.

The thing about TV is you kind of have an endless canvas. You can always keep going.

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

I think that comics and television, as mediums, go hand in hand. Both tell long-form, continuing stories that are parsed out into little chapters and, if are successful, continue for years and years. What that means to me, as a writer, is it tells stories of transformation and evolution as characters.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.