Susan Downey Quotes

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

I can say that. I have a television show.

You're used to a TV show, and TV is just made for TV shows. It's not made for live events.So anyways, I was resistant to it, but I did it anyway.

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

I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

I don't have a lot of time for television because I am making it, so it's really hard for me to sit down. But when I do get a chance, I try to catch up on 'Scandal,' 'Empire' and 'black-ish.'

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

In television, the creator is really the voice...

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.

The Emmys are flat-out fun.

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

You don't really have time to watch TV if you work on TV.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.