Shawn Ryan Quotes

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

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

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

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.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

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.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

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.

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.

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.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

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.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.