Roy Choi Quotes

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

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.

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

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

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

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.

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

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling.

Developing a series is a next step for me.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.