Shawn Ryan Quotes

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• The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.
• 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 can.
• I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.
• I don't want my writing to be recognized.
• 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 people…
• I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.
• I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.
• I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.
• 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 show.
• 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.
• To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.
• 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 much.
• Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.
• You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
• I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who…
• I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of…
• In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a…
• One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a…
• Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And…
• There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you…

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