Shawn Ryan

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

— Shawn Ryan

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a…

— Shawn Ryan

The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

— Shawn Ryan

Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend…

— 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

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

— 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

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

— Shawn Ryan

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

— Shawn Ryan

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are.…

— 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

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the…

— 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

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

— 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

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

— Shawn Ryan

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to…

— Shawn Ryan

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

— 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