Lisa Cholodenko Quotes

I love doing television series.

I'm an actor, and so of course I want to see TV companies making good dramas. I want that to be a priority.

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad.'

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' I did an episode on, and that's one of my favorite television shows ever, and there are these shows that I watch so regularly.

The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.

I loved doing 'Gilmore Girls.' I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I'd do anything with her.

I'd love to work with Jed Whedon on 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino gave me such a gift with 'Bunheads,' and to give me this gift of going on 'Gilmore Girls' was beyond. It was awesome.

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I realized I loved working in television as well as film. Besides, if I hadn't been forced to look for work in TV, I'd never have gotten to work on 'Game of Thrones.'

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

With television, I worked on 'Lost,' where you'd just put your faith in the writers and go with what they're writing.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.