“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.” PeopleWritingRealityFormCultureLeftWonderComedyTvsStandardsRomanticHarderEntertainmentGenreClassicLegitimacyReality Tv Author:Nancy Meyers
“I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.” PeopleWritingKidsTvsInternetGlassesMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Oscar Nunez
“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.” WritingDifferentCharacterStoriesTogetherPoliticalAnimalEmotionalTvsDevelopmentSmartDepthThese DaysCharacter DevelopmentReally SmartDifferent Animals Author:Connie Nielsen
“I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.” ThinkingKnowsWritingCrimeTvsDemandIntellectEnormousSoupSpit Author:Donna Leon
“TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.” WritingDifferentTvsMediumsInvolving Author:Tom Skerritt
“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.” WritingFirstsSongRecordsWrittenTvsFirst TimeUniversalAlbumsBusPromotingLiving OnWriting SongsPersonal Experiences Author:Kate Voegele
“Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.” PeopleWritingDifferentCharacterProcessVoiceRoomsNovelTvsJokesTranslate Author:Jennifer Weiner
“There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.” WritingCharacterLevelsTvsFemaleDeeperFemale CharactersSophistication Author:Vera Farmiga
“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.” NeedsWritingFirstsShowsWorryTelevisionTvsInternetOnlineTv ShowsSeventiesEightyWebsiteBlockbuster Author:Al Franken
“There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.” WritingRealShowsTvsDevelopmentIndustryHollywoodAustraliaMapsGuidelines Author:Jason Gann
“Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster, among others - subsequently moved to Fox TV and copped an Emmy for writing.” WritingShowsStarsTvsConsciousMovedPopsTomsFoxesCruiseMtvEmmys Author:Manohla Dargis
“I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.” FeelsWritingBookDifferentAudienceTvsBook Writing Author:Josh Lieb
“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.” IfsWantWritingFirstsMeanBookTvsAmountRidiculous Author:Josh Lieb
“I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.” WritingBookKidsStarsGrowsGrowing UpTvsMeaningfulNovelistsMovie Star Author:Bill Vaughan