Showrunner Quotes

#1. A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

Glen Mazzara

#2. Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.

Carlton Cuse

#3. I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you.

Judy Greer

#4. If I was ever to ask advice, it could be from any actor or showrunner or writer. I wouldn't necessarily ask an animate. I don't want to say that the wrong way, but animation's not really my world.

Steve Dildarian

#5. I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

Mindy Kaling

#6. There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

Vince Gilligan

#7. I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

John Landgraf

#8. Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

Graham Yost

#9. I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.

Jill Soloway

#10. I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

Matt Nix

#11. When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

Michael Hirst

#12. If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

Garry Marshall

#13. In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Jim Rash

#14. Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.

Ronald D. Moore

#15. The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

Bear McCreary

#16. Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

Shawn Ryan

#17. 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 writing staff works.

Robert Greenblatt

#18. I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

Gene Simmons

#19. I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Jonathan Demme

#20. Death isn't catching either, yet nevertheless we all die.

Jose Saramago

#21. That's what happens when you force someone to choose. Maybe they pick option A, maybe they pick option B, but most will go for a third option that isn't asking them to pick favorites in the first place.

Lish McBride

#22. Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

J.M. Barrie

#23. It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

LeRoy Neiman

#24. We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Zinedine Zidane

#25. It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Franz Grillparzer