Television Quotes by Greg Berlanti

9 Television quotes by Greg Berlanti

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Berlanti’s prolific career is distilled into nine succinct statements. They offer a fast‑track look at his view of television without the fluff.

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In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

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Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

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The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing…

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TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

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People don't really see television shows and movies as different anymore. They expect the same quality.

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I think in television there's more of an awareness about a need for more diversity, but there still needs to be great…

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Especially with DVRs nowadays, people have their roster. More and more, it's not just, 'I'll watch what's on at 9 P.M.' They…

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Early episodes of TV I compare to out-of-town plays. You can make them better. You don't have all the time in the…

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It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry,…

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We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone…

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I read some Marvel, but I was more of a DC guy. Particularly the Flash, Barry Allen. I latched on to him because I…

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To me, there's still nothing more thrilling than, every week, people getting to see another chapter in this story that you're telling.

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You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As…

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There were only a couple of Marvel characters I read. I read 'Iron Man.' I have a lot of those. And this was the…

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I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part…

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For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it…

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I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.

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For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special…

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The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing it.

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There's even more blending of genres happening. They blend sci-fi with action, or family drama with a mystery show. People don't want to just…

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There were moments where Supergirl gets a thrashing in the pilot, where if a man in the 'Flash' or 'Arrow' pilot got beat up,…

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Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to…

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Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

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