#ay

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#authenticity #bar #days #expectations #higher

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#always #any #art #fell #films

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#basis #cast #disappointing #episode #going

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#go #intuitive #play #shakespeare #through

The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#certain #delayed #payment #sins

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#delayed #payment #sins

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#economic #episodes #exploit #going #hits

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#days #even #grosses #i #known

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#absolutely #always #amazed #because #i

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! ↗

— Mark Rydell

#agent #being #director #interesting #kind