Television Quotes by Shawn Ryan

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

— Shawn Ryan

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show…

— Shawn Ryan

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

— Shawn Ryan

I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

— 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…

— 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…

— Shawn Ryan

Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else…

— Shawn Ryan

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the…

— Shawn Ryan

When you start a TV show, you're not necessarily thinking, "Are we setting up what we need for season seven?" You're just…

— Shawn Ryan

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network…

— Shawn Ryan

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the…

— Shawn Ryan

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you…

— Shawn Ryan

There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place,…

— Shawn Ryan