Christopher Timothy Quotes

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.

Shonda Rhimes is at the top of television.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

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

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

Emily Kapnek's such a great writer, producer, creator.

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.

I don't watch a lot of television, which sounds strange for someone who works in TV.

Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

Getting into network television was tougher than I thought it was gonna be.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.

When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

In television, the creator is really the voice...

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.