Juliet Rylance Quotes

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

In daytime, you're shooting an episode a day, which is on average about 90 pages of script a day. That is very hectic. On '90210,' you get to work through it a little more. You're not just flying through it just to get it done.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

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 am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

My day job is making TV shows.

When I auditioned for 'Jessie,' I knew that Disney Channel basically will do 100 episodes of a show if it's a hit; they'll stick with something. It's a great network to work with because they make a nice big commitment to a show.

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

'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it.

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When you're shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with 'Serenity,' we could shoot one scene all day long.

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

Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.