Quotes About Episodic

#1. I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

David Hemmings

#2. Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Joseph Stiglitz

#3. I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.

Bruce Boxleitner

#4. You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Dick Van Dyke

#5. There are no true monsters, only some people [ ... ] who with regularity acted like a monster. It's still episodic. [ ... ] It never works when you leave out even a small part of the picture.

Jim Harrison

#6. Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

Marc Cherry

#7. One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

Bruno Heller

#8. I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

Charles McCarry

#9. I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

Rowan Atkinson

#10. The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#11. It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.

Jane Krakowski

#12. So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

David R. Ellis

#13. With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters.

Sasha Roiz

#14. Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

Simon Pegg

#15. The war produced a dreadful desolation in the underground movement. After the arrest of the Duma faction, the Bolsheviks had no centralized party organization at all. The local committees had an episodic existence, and often had no connections with the workers' districts.

Leon Trotsky

#16. Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

Don Roff

#17. If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

Tony Gilroy

#18. I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Lisa Cholodenko

#19. I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

Frank Whaley

#20. You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

Katey Sagal

#21. Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

Ian Allison

#22. I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

Peter Weller

#23. With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.

Melanie Mayron

#24. In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

David Giuntoli

#25. Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.

Joel Fuhrman

#26. The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

Sam Mendes

#27. When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.

Julian Schnabel

#28. One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#29. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

Edmund White

#30. It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

Linda McMahon

#31. Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

Michael Hogan

#32. Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

Simon Toyne

#33. I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

James Roday

#34. I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Maggie Siff

#35. Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#36. I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Sam Abell

#37. Life is the episodic collection of anecdotes that has some deeper meaning.

Surbhi Sareen

#38. The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.

Jorge Luis Borges

#39. One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.

Peter Capaldi

#40. One thing I'm working on is an episodic web series titled 'One Warm Night.' It's a kinda crazy, quirky series, filled with a lot of misfits, oddballs ... ninjas.

Justin Lee