Laura Prepon Quotes

What I do know is how difficult it is in this industry to get a show on the air. There's so many different stages: getting a script bought by the network, then getting a pilot made and having that pilot go to series, and then, when that series gets on the air, having people watch it.

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

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

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

The first season of a show's always a rollercoaster because nobody knows what they're doing. You gotta rush through the season trying to figure out: What is this show? And who are these characters?

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.

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to thrive in that time slot.

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

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

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle.

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

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.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'