Episodes Quotes

A lot of shows start at one place, and then each episode is like a new little circle, often getting smaller.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.

Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.

Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?

In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future.

This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.

If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'.

If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good and sometimes you're like, "That one was just sorta there."

They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

I've never watched an entire episode of 'American Idol'. It's too mean.

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

I had heard about Cheers, of course, but I never watched it. So I watched two episodes, and I was like, "Oh my God. This is really good."

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

I did The Commish and an episode of Neon Rider, and then I got the series called Street Justice, which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.

Andy Ackerman directed the episodes that I was doing, and he directed a lot of Seinfeld [episodes]. And that was great.

I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby.

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job became one of expansion.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.