Melanie Mayron Quotes

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

I started directing on 'The Wire.'

If you had ever told me that the finest film work was going to be done on television, I wouldn't have believed it.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storytelling. Incredible actors, story lines that weren't easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!'

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

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 Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

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.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater.

It's funny - I was a big fan of 'The Sopranos.' It became kind of a threat to 'The X-Files' in a way because they could play with language, character, and story in ways that we never could because of the limitations of network television.