Anticipation Quote by Michael K. Powell

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

The other great thing about it, that seems to be the case in streaming, is that a lot more scripts are written before you…

— Tom Riley

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will…

— Susanna Phillips

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

“It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.”

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make…

— Billy Campbell

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

— Khandi Alexander

Each book first begins with a little idea.

— Dick Bruna

I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that…

— Oren Moverman