Shawn Ryan Quotes

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

The thing about TV is you kind of have an endless canvas. You can always keep going.

In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.

My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

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

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

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.

TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.

That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on.

Television is all about deadlines.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

When I build for YouTube, there isn't necessarily an end goal. I have an idea of how I want a thing to work, but if it doesn't work that way, I can always adapt the story. The story is the main driver, not the machine.

Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn't my favourite and I'd think, 'ach I'll shove that in this episode.'

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

On 'Mr. Robot,' because I run the writers' room and know every decision behind every line of dialogue, I'm able to be nimble and adapt with the scripts and the moments. I never have to question what I'm doing as I'm directing the actors or going through the scenes.

While there are certainly food-focused content out there on the Web and on TV, most of this content need to weave through many layers of editing before it reaches the viewer.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

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

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.