Joel Hodgson Quotes

Early episodes of TV I compare to out-of-town plays. You can make them better. You don't have all the time in the world, but you have time to make them better and improve them as you go along.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

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

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.

I don't watch daily soap. I've never seen my shows as well except for the scenes in which I really want to improve something or correct something.

In every writers' room I've been in, the first 15-20 minutes of the day are spent discussing water cooler moments from last night's big shows.

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.

The BBC is a very confident broadcasting organisation and it needs brands like 'Top of the Pops' and 'Top Gear.'

I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn.

No actor can refuse a combination of a good story, a Balaji production, and the show being aired on Star Plus.

We have to have humor to survive 22 episodes a year of network television.

I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if you want to do it.

Let me be crystal clear: I love doing television.

One of my previous incarnations is as a question writer, so I'd worked on shows like 'The Weakest Link' and a couple of very short-lived ITV series.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.

I enjoy going to shows to study other artists. It is important to always remain a student to my craft.

Channel 4 always do really great stuff; they do great comedies.

It's no good to do a piece once and then move on because it doesn't have time to develop. I try to play seven or eight concerti in a season, and generally one or two of those are new for me.