Long Quote by Ted Shackelford

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for…

— Florence Pugh

A creative person can suddenly realize it's not 90 minutes. They haven't got to do three acts, they haven't got to do the arc,…

— Steven Knight

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

— Aaron Sorkin

Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware…

— Antony Starr

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

— Grant Bowler

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long…

— Bridget Regan

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

— Alison Brie

Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take…

— Jimmy Smits

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

— Richard Russo

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character…

— Charlie Day