Quotes About Series

'Man Down''s my absolute priority. If they give me another series, I'll throw everything into it because I really like the characters. But after that, I'll certainly be getting back on stage because I haven't done a proper gig for two years. Which is ridiculous for someone who loves it so much.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life

What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!

I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!

Almost all of my favorite shows are limited series. It just seems to be the better way to go.

I think my favorite show of all time was 'Deadwood.'

One of my favourite things growing up was 'Asterix', those books.

The second series is always my favourite as a writer/director; you can hit the ground running... so that's fun.

The very design of 'Breaking Bad' was that it was a finite, close-ended series.

Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.

I am in the U.K. for inspiration because I'm doing a follow on series to 'The Infernal Devices,' called 'The Last Hours.' It's a re-telling of 'Great Expectations' with 'Shadowhunters'... because why not! It's set in 1903, so I'm doing a lot of locational research.

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series and my first book quickly gave up.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.