Quotes by Shawn Ryan

Shawn Ryan

Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren’t afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.

Character

Cheer

Fall

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I’m just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

Fall

Long

Successful

I always think it’s better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas – and dismiss a lot of ideas – before figuring out where to land. It’s a good way to care for your audience, too. If you spend hours and hours and days and weeks coming up with the ending, then there’s a chance the fans won’t figure it out on their own.

Care

Chance

Thinking

I don’t ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

Names

Television

Want

I don’t want my writing to be recognized.

Want

Writing

I don’t want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

People

Unique

Writing

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

Back And Forth

No Problem

Problem

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

Driven

Episodes

Trying

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

Bars

Expectations

Thinking

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.

Art

Kids

New York

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Art

Avoided

Back And Forth

Bars

Book

Care

Chance

Character

Cheer

Color

Cost

Creative

Different

Driven

Economic

Embrace

Ends

Episodes

Expectations

Fall

Fans

Feel Good

Findings

Fun

Historical

Hours

Humble

Jobs

Kids

Knowing

Levels

Lines

Long

Made

Moving

Names

Needs

New York

No Problem

Order

Over You

Payment

People

Practice

Pressure

Problem

Responsibility

Running

Seven

Shows

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Quotes by Shawn Ryan

Shawn Ryan

Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren’t afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I’m just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

I don’t ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

I don’t want my writing to be recognized.

I don’t want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

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

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

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

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.

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