All Shawn Ryan Quotes
- The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided. 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. Becomes
- I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it. Episode
- I don't want my writing to be recognized. Inspirational
- 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… Apply
- I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great. Driven
- I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself. Creative
- I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to. Color
- 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. Alone
- 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. Ahead
- To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love. Day
- 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. Fast
- Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies. Inspirational
- You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch. Alchemy
- 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… Affected
- 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… Best
- 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… Appeal
- 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… Bases
- 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… Book
- 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… All
- 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 episodes… Economic
- I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. Audience
- I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network. All