Brad Anderson Quotes

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and, you know, you're allowed to make such great television.

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I would love to be on a really good show and share all the stuff that goes into creating a big TV show and get my audience into it. I think that makes it personal and makes the audience feel like they're a part of it.

I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

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 love working in TV. And I love the adrenaline of hosting things like 'Access Hollywood' with, like, zero preparation and just going straight on.

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.

Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.