Eric Braeden Quotes

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

I have a DVD of 'Lois & Clark,' and I don't know how the special effects hold up, because all the technology's gotten so much better. But the writer - the woman that wrote 'Lois & Clark' - I think those stories were good.

I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want you to write scripts.' We sold pilots to a bunch of different networks.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

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.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.

That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.