Shawn Ryan quotes
-
“Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren't afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.”
-- Shawn RyanSource : Source: www.gq.com
-
“I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.”
-- Shawn RyanSource : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2008.
-
“Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
-
“You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.”
-- Shawn RyanSource : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2008.
-
“I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
-
“One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.”
-- Shawn RyanSource : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2008.
-
-
“I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
-
“Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
-
“I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
“There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.”
-- Shawn Ryan -
You may also like:
-
Abigail Spencer
Film actress -
Andre Braugher
Actor -
Andy Samberg
Actor -
Brandon T. Jackson
Stand-up comedian -
C. C. H. Pounder
Film actress -
David Mamet
Playwright -
Eric Kripke
Television writer -
Glenn Close
Film actress -
Goran Visnjic
Actor -
Jennifer Beals
Film actress -
Joss Whedon
Screenwriter -
Kurt Sutter
Screenwriter -
Marcia Gay Harden
Film actress -
Matt Lanter
Actor -
Matt Lauria
Actor -
Michael Chiklis
Actor -
Scott Speedman
Film actor -
Timothy Olyphant
Actor -
Walton Goggins
Actor -
Kenny Johnson
Actor