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I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out. -- Peter Weller
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now. -- Dick Van Dyke
I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around. -- David Hemmings
In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense. -- David Giuntoli
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. -- Tony Gilroy
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever. -- David R. Ellis
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
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that. -- Sam Abell
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
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job. -- Jane Krakowski
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
One thing I'm working on is an episodic web series titled 'One Warm Night.' It's a kinda crazy, quirky series, filled with a lot of misfits, oddballs... ninjas. -- Justin Lee
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
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
One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. -- Peter Capaldi
I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do. -- James Roday
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
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
With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters. -- Sasha Roiz
One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative. -- Edmund White
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
Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing. -- Michael Hogan
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The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. -- Antoine Predock
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes. -- Brian Eno
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
It's hard to make a book episodic. -- Sam Heughan
It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television. -- Matt Letscher
Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit. -- Don Roff
One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever. -- Lesli Linka Glatter
One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with. -- Bruno Heller
Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live. -- Joel Fuhrman
With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break. -- Melanie Mayron
Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script. -- Simon Pegg
I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film. -- Maggie Siff

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