“As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the ...” — John Slattery Quote

“As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.”

“Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.”

“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.”

“Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.”

“Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.”

“There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.”