Shawn Ryan Quotes
You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.
I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.
TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.
There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.
Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.
I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.
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.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.
I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.
The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.
Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.
