Deals Quote by Jon Spaihts Download Open image “It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.” — Jon Spaihts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deals Respect Tvs Writing
Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
For a writer, working in television is an incredibly rewarding medium. You're in charge of all aspects of production and get to see your… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
When you start out as a TV writer, you get a lot of pressure from outside forces to fit into what they think people… — Nahnatchka Khan 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
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
