I don't think I have the power to do more mythological shows, but I would love to if it's like a finite series. But doing that as a daily soap is not easy.
'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.
The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week.
For me, the best thing is the young actors that come in to the series as to see the depth and breadth of talent coming into the business is fantastic.
I've been an actor for 30 years. I'm not going to run from a great theater production to do two days on an HBO series or something.
I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
Ultimately we all only have our reputation, and it is nothing more than a series of small decisions you make every single day.
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.
In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.
It can sometimes feel like the commercials for Activision's 'Call of Duty' series are always on. If the publisher has its way, the games will be, too.
I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.
A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.
If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.
Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those changes.
I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.
I have a series of exercises in which I do a lot of core. I enjoy an ab workout. I practice every day and do many different types.
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.
Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.
People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.
Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
I'm not ashamed to admit that for many years, most of my fitness information came from a VHS series by MTV called ''The Grind Workout.''
'Housefull' is made with the express purpose of being an entertaining, time-pass film. No one is supposed to search for great art in this series.
'Korra' is its own series. Obviously it's tied in, in the same world, a similar story, but it's not just 'Book Four' of 'The Last Airbender.'
In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is 'MasterChef', which I have watched since Loyd Grossman's day, back in the 1990s.
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
People have a weird idea of what happens with a successful series. After it's over they think we just retire to green pastures. Well, it ain't so.
I think a big bucket list item for me and Jonathan is to produce some of our own scripted films and series.
I'm sure that a French production of this [Maigret series] would be different. For better or worse, who's to say, but probably not very good for 8 o'clock on ITV.
Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
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