Sara Ramirez Quotes

I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.

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

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film.

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.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.

I just love working with actors in general.

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.

The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.

As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.

I come out of TV, where you never reshoot, because you don't have time. If you do reshoot, it's because someone really screwed up.

Any time you work for Aaron Sorkin, your life as an actor is drastically improved.

Television, nowadays, is like doing really long films.

Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

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.

Television is my home. It's a special breed of person that can do nine months on and three months off, with 22 episodes of one-hour shows. It's very hard work. It can be a grind. It's not a grind for me. I relish in that.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.