Julia Hartz Quotes

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Developing a series is a next step for me.

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

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

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 did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.

I intend to do more directing TV.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.