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 Copy Share Image
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level,… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
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… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied.… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
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… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
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… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
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… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
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… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network. — Shawn Ryan Copy Share
