Dean Devlin Quotes

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

Working on 'Roadies' has been a fantastic experience.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

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

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

I know, just from directing television, where you have a huge support system of producers and writers and a script supervisor - not just the cast but a crew of 100 people - there are, as a director, hundreds of questions that you have to answer every day.

It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'

Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

Shooting for Aamar Pratigya' was a completely delightful experience for the 25 days I shot for the film.

Literally, 'Dance Moms' was so amazing, and I have the world to thank for that. They were so awesome - the set, the cast, the crew - it was amazing.

Well, we shoot for so long on 'Stranger Things' that I know Atlanta really well.

Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is fantastic to work with.

The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."

I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'

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.

There is a variety of different kind of producers. I'm a very hands-on, creative producer. I find material that I think would make a good movie or TV show, find the right financier/studio/network, hire a writer, get a good script, find a director, and collaborate with him/her to cast the movie and hire department heads.

Friends of mine were the creators and executive producers of 'Damages,' people I knew from graduate school.

I really wanted 'NH10' to be made, and being associated with it eased the entire process.

I love 'Criminal Minds' and have put my heart and soul into it for the last 12 years. I had hoped to see it through to the end, but that won't be possible now. I would just like to say thank you to the writers, producers, actors, our amazing crew, and, most importantly, the best fans that a show could ever hope to have.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.