Robert David Hall Quotes

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

To get a job in TV is just amazing.

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

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

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.

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

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

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

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.'

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.

I can't see myself being a television director unless it's for a two-hour movie.

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.

I come out of TV, where you never reshoot, because you don't have time. If you do reshoot, it's because someone really screwed up.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

I did a lot of multi-cam shows when I first started coming out to L.A.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.