Quotes by Shawn Ryan - Page 1

I don't want my writing to be recognized.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Want
Writing
Recognized
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The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Avoided
Payment
Sin
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The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Avoided
Delayed
Payment
Sins
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I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Creative
Levels
Pressure
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I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Color
Lines
Network
Perfectly
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The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Avoided
Delayed
Payment
Sins
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I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Back And Forth
No Problem
Problem
Cable
Forth
Network
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I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Names
Television
Want
Weak
Episode
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To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Findings
Tv Shows
Tvs
Nothing
Love Me Day
Tv
Show
Love Me Nothing
Day
Finding
Happier
Makes
Tv Show
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Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Made
Shows
Watches
Watch
Tougher
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I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Driven
Episodes
Trying
Episode
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I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Authenticity
Bars
Expectations
Higher
Thinking
Bar
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You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Alchemy
Needs
People
Watches
Magical
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The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Ends
Shows
Worst
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Book
Fans
Historical
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Moving
Too Much
Worry
Medium
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Jobs
Anticipate
Thinking
Want
Ahead
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Delay
Fall
Long
Successful
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Different Genres
People
Unique
Writing
People Know Want
Apply
Genres
Previous
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Extraordinary
Humble
Knowing
Tv Shows
Medium
Tv Show
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Character
Little Bit
Needs
Order
Appeal
Base
Generally
Likable
Network
Survive
To Survive
Wider
Wider Audience
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Different
Embrace
Practice
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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 / Screenwriter
Economic
Episodes
Pressure
Always Will Pressure
Exploit
Pressure Will Always
Hits
Identify
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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.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Cheaper
Cost
Episodes
Tv Shows
Want
Individually
Network
Tv Show
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When you start a TV show, you're not necessarily thinking, "Are we setting up what we need for season seven?" You're just trying to stay on the air, and you try to learn your job as you go, and do what you can.
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Seven
Thinking
Trying
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Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Book
Feel Good
Finale
Responsibility
Satisfied
Series
Closes
Feeling Good
Strike
Viewer
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Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren't afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Character
Cheer
Fall
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I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Best Work
Boundaries
Parameters
Team
Thinking
Years
Best Work Your
Cable
Network
On And Off
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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 / Screenwriter
Running
Disappointing
Stars
Surprise
Tricky
Tv Shows
Basis
Cast
Episode
Guest
Tv Show
Weekly
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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 / Screenwriter
Art
Kids
New York
Midwest
Love Art Me
Watched
Medium
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I always think it's better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas - and dismiss a lot of ideas - before figuring out where to land. It's a good way to care for your audience, too. If you spend hours and hours and days and weeks coming up with the ending, then there's a chance the fans won't figure it out on their own.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Chance
Care
Thinking
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There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have to treat each episode like an hour of TV, and think that maybe this will be the only episode that anyone will ever watch. You want to have some sort of beginning, middle, and end to the episode, even if you have storylines that are carrying over. You still want it to feel like a cohesive hour of entertainment. And you can't think about both at the same time.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Hours
Over You
Thinking
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Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctual writer, and I don't plot shows out like, "This is my thesis and this is how I'm going to subtly sneak my thesis into this episode." I just approach it from, "We know these characters well, here are the situations that they're in, now how would they behave? What would the consequences be?" And it's always fun to see how people interpret that and dissect it afterward, and make me and the other writers seem probably smarter than we really are.
Shawn Ryan / Screenwriter
Character
Fun
Smart
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