Hours Quote by James Purefoy Download Open image “I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.” — James Purefoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hours Perfect Pieces Scripts Television
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
Apparently, sitcoms are like the dream job, I've been told. The hours are great, apparently. — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
It's too bad that television needs so much material and does not leave time for quality writing. That's one of the things I have… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences… — Matt Barr Copy Share Image
Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you. — James Wolk Copy Share Image
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours.… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film. — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics -… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image