Jason Witten Quotes

I always say the wrestlers provide the music and the announcers write the lyrics. You have to feel what you're seeing and experiencing to write the best lyrics.

I don't think I would be very good on TV broadcasting games.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.

Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.

There's a lot of noise in the world. And one of the beautiful things about doing theater and film is the absence of that noise or, perhaps, the adding of that noise where it's helpful in telling the story. I'm always trying to get rid of that noise. The more you do it, the better you get.

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

I love television because it's the most alive, because you don't know how it's going to end. It's a living thing. Sometimes the writers are watching you to see how things will unfold. Sometimes the writers have written it, and you come to it, and they have to change their way of going because of what you've done.

You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control.

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

I knew I wanted to make good television, create content that's massy, and provide programming that would invite families to come together and witness these 'reel' lives.

I've had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.

Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.

I'm used to doing a lot of live broadcasting.

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it is not a bad living!

Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me, to pick a genre I want to do is a little harder. I would say it's more about thinking, 'What genre will work for what kind of story?' And then, when all of that comes, I embrace it and run with it.

I know that every football fan would love to do my job; get paid to watch football and say it how they see it, and I know I'm in a very privileged position.

Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.