Bryan Lourd Quotes

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.

Great writing makes great television.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

The Producers Guild represents the creativity, innovation and dynamism that sets our industry apart from all others.

I'd love to host a reality show now and not be a contestant in it. I want to take a show forward.

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

I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.