James Corden Quotes

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

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

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

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.

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.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that I don't 'know' that I necessarily really know what it's like to do a regular show.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

My day job is making TV shows.

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

I like to do a movie, to be on it 8, 10 weeks. It evolves as you're working on it. Little things come to you every day. It's a slow process, and when you have to pack it into a short period of time, which you do for television, the experience is not one that I cherish. So if it's going to be television, it's really got to be the right thing.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling.