Television Director Quotes

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.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

I met Harry Thomason when I signed on with 20th Century Fox in 1985.

If I got into TV, I'd want to be the best.

I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'

I can't see myself being a television director unless it's for a two-hour movie.

Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

Ryan Murphy is a genius. In terms of television, very few have been as prolific.

I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.

The director of the [Grimm] pilot called me in. I had worked on a pilot called Love Bites with him, and the producers I worked on with on Hot In Cleveland, so they knew me from comedic worlds, and they wanted someone who could be light too. Because it is pretty heavy.

Vince Gilligan is a wizard - and a fantastically hard-working wizard.

Ryan Murphy is one of the best at creating universes.

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.

Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades.

I particularly relate to the films of Mikio Naruse and Shinichi Kamoshita, a person whose work I watched very much as a child, a director of family dramas for television.

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

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

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.

When David Goyer comes to the small screen, what he's actually doing is making the small screen bigger.