Balance Quote by Ronald D. Moore

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

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone…

— Alan Ball

Part of what I love about producing is to get to work with writers.

— Simon Kinberg

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with…

— Josh Elliott

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

— Billy Lawrence

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit…

— David Labrava

Writing was something that came easily to me and there's so many great producers who just teach you so much.

— Nadine Coyle

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

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting…

— Molly Shannon

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

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

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up;…

— Chuck Palahniuk