Episode Quote by Tanya Saracho

That is one thing I really hate about working in TV - you have to shape episodes to exact time-lengths, do like 22 minutes,…

— Julia Davis

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully,…

— Chris Zylka

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

— Mary Tyler Moore

You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short…

— Margot Kidder

The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television…

— Joe Mantegna

There's something helpful about the fast pace of a TV set where everything has to be finished by the end of the week. You…

— Emily Mortimer

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month…

— Mike Judge

When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.

— Joshua Jackson

Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are…

— Michael Learned

Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the air. There's…

— Joel McHale

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

— Jon Tenney

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

— John Marsden