Shawn Ryan Quotes

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television.

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

I feel like it's a golden age for television.

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

American television really is pathetic.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

I'm the TV girl.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

Women drive network television.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.

Every single television product has the ambition to chase ratings, every one of them. Many have other ambitions, for many, ratings are not #1. But my experience on TV, and on the entertainment side, has been entirely ratings-based. When I look at TV I look at ratings. And I never second guess ratings. Never.

I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It's a great platform.

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.