Quotes About Showrunner

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.

The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing it.

I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person running this show, but the female aspect is the thing that I get asked about.

In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven't seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they're going to tell.

As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.

I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.

Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.

To be a showrunner and a director is beyond exhausting.

What I'm about to say won't be popular, but it's true: If being a television showrunner is the job you want, and you are a woman, I would not suggest you have children. The reality is that you just cannot do both well.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.

If you look at any sitcom that you watch, if it takes place in, say, a small town in Massachusetts, and it's about the dynamics of the people in that town, the showrunner probably grew up in a town like that, witnessed things, and created content.

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

My first time up to bat as a showrunner, what I did was hire an all-Latinx writers room. And it's a diverse Latinx writers room - we have an Afro-Dominican and Texicans and Chileans. It's diverse within its Latinidad.

The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds.

It's something I've seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I think being a showrunner, you have a lot of unchecked power and I think that can be a very dangerous thing.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

When you work in a writers room for a showrunner, you serve that story, and you serve that showrunner. I don't think it should be called writing; I think it should be called rendering content. Because you are there to render the content that is agreed upon in the room, and you're serving the voice of the main storyteller, which is the showrunner.

Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner.

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.