Episodes Quotes - Page 18

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

  John Landgraf

  Series

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• Regis Philbin's back in primetime, hosting 11 new episodes of 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.' But because of Obama's tax plan, it's been re-titled 'Who Wants To Win Just Under $250,000.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Winning, Want, Millionaire

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• Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

  David Benioff

  Make Or Break, Break, Seasons

  "The story behind 'Blackwater', Game of Thrones's brutal season two masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. November 30, 2012.

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• One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.

  Robert Duncan McNeill

  Real, Next Week, Romance

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• I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters.

  Richard Sammel

  Character, Two, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

  Frank Darabont

  School, Writing, Learning Something New

  Source: collider.com

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• I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way.

  Ed Helms

  Woven, Narrative, Way

  "Ed Helms Talks THE HANGOVER PART III, Character Relationships, Location Shoots, Returning Characters, Concluding the Trilogy & More from Our Set Visit". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.

  Andy Greenwald

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Believe, Law

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• Reminisce about the little episodes that we shared together

  Shing02

  Together, Reminiscing, Littles

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• How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Productive Life

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• I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.

  Paul Ryan

  Couple, House Of Cards, Interesting

  "Is Washington a 'House of Cards'?" by S.E. Cupp, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2014.

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• There's gonna be all the twists and turns you would expect and twists and turns you did not expect. The finale is probably the most jam-packed episode there's ever been. Things are packed into it like sardines. All of the life is squeezed in there. They lengthened it to 90 minutes because there's just so much. It's a supersized monstrosity.

  Sonequa Martin

  Life, Twists, Jam

  "'Walking Dead's' big finale: Six shows to watch this week" by Henry Hanks, www.cnn.com. March 28, 2015.

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• How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Differences, Risk

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• When picking a show, I took into consideration who my fans are. Let's be honest, Buffy was a mid-season replacement on The WB, based on a failed movie. If it wasn't for the outpouring of fans and critics supporting us, we would have been canceled after four episodes. Sure, you want to stretch and you want to do different things, but it's also our job to think about who our fans are and what they want to see. Ultimately, that's why we do.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Jobs, Thinking, Fans

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.

  Tim Gunn

  Memorable, Austin, Dresses

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

  Misha Collins

  Father, Body, Invasion

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give.

  Milton Friedman

  Character, Squares, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Editing, Together, Scripts

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• In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that don't feel like they belong. In comics, you're gonna write a whole run, which means it's your style that's coming through. But when you're working on a show that's collaborated with a dozen other writers, you have to have a style that blends the show together. So you can't write it the way you normally would, because your script will stand out from all the others.

  Marv Wolfman

  Running, Mean, Writing

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

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• It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Morning, Pain

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• I'm not into those shows like "hey everybody, gather round the TV, let's watch The Simpsons!" I'm not one of those guys: "I gotta get home, man, Family Guy's on! I gotta race to my TV before I miss the episode of Family Guy!" I'm not one of those guys.

  Pablo Francisco

  Home, Family Guy, Men

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're finding fertile material. Whether it's in a phrase like "going over like a lead balloon" or "a needle in a haystack," or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond, we're finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. It might not be correct, but we can test out if it's true.

  Adam Savage

  Believe, People, Phrases

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Couple, Keys, Ideas

  "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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• For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Reading, Needs, Lasts

  "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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