Rob Huebel Quotes

Great writing makes great television.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

Every actor just wants good writing.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're lucky enough to get it, like with 'Lost,' that's what I follow.

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.