Episodes Quotes - Page 14

• That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

  John Landgraf

  Groups, Stories, Elements

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• Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs, and I'm at home. There's no gratification and there's no audience interaction with it.

  Genndy Tartakovsky

  Home, Air, Tvs

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• The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.

  Billy Campbell

  Character, Long, Giving

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as we sit in the writers room and break episodes, it strikes you, every once in awhile, that you're talking about a character that's played by the same actor, who you've been talking about forever. We talk about a character dying, so you get emotional, and then you realize, "Oh, but wait, that actor is still on the show."

  Jeff Pinkner

  Couple, Writing, Character

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• Fortunately, I have an amazing partner that allows us to do these different things, who will be directing an episode himself soon, I'm sure. But, it's amazing. I love directing and I think that it allowed me to get closer to the actors and actually work with them on a level that I haven't before, and really get down there with them. I would jump at the chance to do it, anytime I could.

  J.H. Wyman

  Thinking, Different, Actors

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• Television is my home. It's a special breed of person that can do nine months on and three months off, with 22 episodes of one-hour shows. It's very hard work. It can be a grind. It's not a grind for me. I relish in that.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Hard Work, Home, Special

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks THE LYING GAME, HAUNTED HIGH, and the BUFFY Remake". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 28, 2011.

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• With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

  Anthony Mackie

  Order, Law, Done

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• There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

  Eric McCormack

  Voice, Grace, Audience

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• All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it.

  Ricky Van Veen

  Fans, Halos, Video

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• One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small "under-five" role I did on "The Young and the Restless." I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Mom, Heart, Thinking

  "'Middle of Nowhere' Star Emayatzy Corinealdi on Her Breakout Leading Role". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Dad, Army, Funeral

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• Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

  James MacArthur

  Years, Hawaii, Six

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• I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.

  Rob McElhenney

  Dark, Philadelphia, World

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

  Yul Vazquez

  Powerful, Estonia, Television

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• I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.

  Graham Yost

  Running, Kids, People

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Justified’s Graham Yost on the Full House Writers’ Room and Learning to Collaborate". Interview with Mike Flaherty, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.

  Michael Loceff

  Crazy, Hair, Actors

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, People, Sometimes

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• The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Cutting, Ideas

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Victory, Watches

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• People watch three or four episodes at a time of their shows.

  Idris Elba

  People, Watches, Three

  "Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson Interview LUTHER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2010.

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• You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going to in the middle of Season 4, Episode 5 of Lost. It's like picking up a Harry Potter book and flipping to a chapter. You have to read it from beginning to end.

  Damon Lindelof

  Book, Order, Law

  "Interview with Lost Co-creator Damon Lindelof". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. It’s a good lesson, isn’t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.

  Sam Simon

  Successful, Laughing, Trying

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• Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Baby, Weekend

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• We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.

  Daniel H. Pink

  People, Stories, World

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• Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'.

  Billy Eichner

  Judging, Amy

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