Episodic Tv Quotes

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Coming off 'Sopranos' and 'Mad Men,' I was starting to feel like I was being spoiled creatively. I wanted to move forward as a director in TV and get more involved in the process. After having those two great experiences, doing regular episodic TV wouldn't be quite the thrill.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

Episodic TV is notoriously brutal because just when you think 'I've got this, I know this character' you can pick up the script for series four and you die in the first episode - or your character suddenly transitions from a woman to a man.

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

Normally, a TV show shoots episodically.

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.

I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.

"Dukes of Hazzard" or something you could, you know that, your work is going to be made up of that - episodic television shows. Not that I got many of them, but that was where I - but actually oddly enough though, they were teaching camera terminology at the same time in this acting class, so I actually was able to understand what rack focus and whip pan and all that stuff meant.