Difficult Quote by Michael Hirst Download Open image “First episodes are difficult things to write.” — Michael Hirst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Difficult Difficult things Episodes First Things Write Writing
I think it's hugely important to have a strong episode one; you can lose an audience so quickly now. You can't afford to take… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
When you're starting on a series, the most important thing in the first episode, or even the first scene, is to very quickly educate… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is. — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here,… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
For 'Vikings,' we have to do so much outside shooting, and it's normally - I think with American shows, it'll be 60 or 70… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they really said.… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened,… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
People offer me loads of stuff, and some of it I like, but I just can't do it because I can't write it all.… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world. — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
