Executives Quote by Matt Nix

Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being…

— Courtney A. Kemp

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a…

— Carlton Cuse

A big part of the job of being a showrunner is, in my way of thinking, being a good communicator because there's really no…

— Vince Gilligan

Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and…

— Carlton Cuse

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the…

— Robert Greenblatt

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner. You evaluate the creative and how the show is run and how…

— Robert Greenblatt

I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

When you're the showrunner, you're the person that's in control of most of the details, and to be able to take all that and…

— Julie Plec

Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

— Graham Yost

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent…

— Anthony Geary

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as…

— Garry Marshall

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first…

— Alison Brie