Robert B. Weide Quotes

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

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

I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

Apart from my film, I am producing TV serials and plan to make more films, too. Mine is not going to be one-film-a-year production company as such.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I was fortunate to work on a few episodes of 'Barry' right before we shot 'Atlanta.' That was where I got my training wheels for action coverage.

Reporting makes you a better anchor and vice versa.

We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'

My son works as a production assistant in television.

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

I'd worked with Matt Strevens on 'Adventure in Space and Time' and he's a great friend of mine.

I was in the middle of filming Season 3 of 'Grace and Frankie.' Then the writing process for 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' was happening at the exact same time. And then the pre-production for 'Fatherless' was happening at the exact same time as well.

I'm directing episode 10 of the new season of 'Dollhouse' and couldn't be more thrilled. I've visited the set several times in the last year and a half to shadow Joss and other directors in order to prepare. It was important for me to get a feeling for the crew and how they interact.

I interned at NBC News and had a great experience there in both New York City and Washington. After graduating, I got an entry-level production job at PBS in Boston. There, I developed the bug for programming and production.

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

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

I owe my career to TV. Most of my training has been through TV.

I actually worked on the pilot of 'The Chase' and wrote the questions on it.

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.