Zak Penn famous quotes

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It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.
-- Zak Penn

#Tv Shows #Goes On #Lasts
One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."
-- Zak Penn

#Directors #Different #Want
The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.
-- Zak Penn

#Hands #Two #People
In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
-- Zak Penn

#People #Television #Levels

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.
There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.
I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.
The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
Iâ€™m doing pretty well. If you donâ€™t get married, you canâ€™t get divorced. Why couldnâ€™t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?
Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

Zak Penn famous quotes

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