Episodic Quotes

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
James Wolcott

Humor, Through, Same

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

Fun, Character, Care

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And I won't have to listen to complaints about how wordy and long my work is if you can watch it on your telephone on the subway: You can make it conform to your day as if it were a book.
Tony Kushner

Work, Long, Book

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

Job, Long, Done

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
Dick Van Dyke

Almost, Television, Watching

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.
Meghan O'Rourke

Friendly, Fact, Chaos

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

Done, Filmmaking

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
David R. Ellis

Car, Whatever, Started

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

Why, Poverty, Exist

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

Work, Nature, Trying

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

Great, Happy, Together

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

Others, Acting, Sure

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.
Peter Weller

Away, Tv, Burns

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.
David Giuntoli

Keep, Secret, Tv

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

Long, Off, Talking

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