Joss Whedon Quotes

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.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

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

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

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 think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

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.

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.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

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

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'

I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

Being on a show like 'Fear the Walking Dead,' I started to learn more about camera work, learn more about the way the crew operates, and had more of a stronger opinion on how I think a television director can operate in the healthiest way.

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

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.