Larry Wilmore Quotes

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

My day job is making TV shows.

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

I always write the script by myself.

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

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets.

TV is the place that writers want to be.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

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