Siddharth Shukla Quotes

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.

With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

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.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

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

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

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.

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.'

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

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

When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.