Quotes About Series

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.

'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

They sent me the first 'Untouchables' script, for instance, and I'm glad I didn't do it. For one thing, it was practically a feature film, and for very little money. If I'd taken it, I'd have been faced with the job of turning them down on the series later.

As I kid, I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and was sad when I got to the last book.

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the 'Harry Potter' books become so bloated as the series progresses; think of the beautiful, precise editing of books 1-3 drowned in a mire of sycophancy and yea-saying.

You can't predict the fate of a show.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well. Trixie Belden was like Nancy Drew, but without the boyfriends and cute outfits, which I think is the reason my mother preferred her.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I've been a huge fan of 'Dating In The Dark' and I'm totally excited to be presenting the third supersized series.

I have no wish to go back to being frustrated by a character. It's really just part of being on an ongoing series. You're constantly hoping the next episode you get, something will happen for you. You're on the edge of your seat all the time, pressing your hands together and hoping that something cool will turn up.

I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

We have to approach every game with a level of desperation and we can't look at the series numbers.

I absolutely love Dorothy Dunnett's 'House of Niccolo' series and the 'Lymond Chronicles.' They are so detailed.

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

I did try judging a talent hunt series, but honestly, TV is not my cup of tea. The time required, I don't think I will be able to dedicate that kind of slot or even the energy to TV.

I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.

You imagine that, going into such a huge American series, you will come up against a lot of egos, but it was the complete opposite on '24,' a dream team.