Agents Quote by Rod Serling

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

— Elisabeth Sladen

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any…

— Kristen Schaal

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all…

— Bruce Vilanch

When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because…

— Kaskade

When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But that's a…

— Michael Connelly

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

— Stephen Sondheim

I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.

— Declan Donnelly

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and…

— Robert Rodriguez

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up…

— Brett Ratner

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was…

— George R. R. Martin

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to…

— Jim Henson

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot…

— Andrew Davies