Ryan, Shawn Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Showrunners: A Documentary Film

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Beverly Hills Cop

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Beverly Hills Cop

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Last Resort

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Chicago Code

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Nash Bridges Writers Roundtable Season 1

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Last Call: The Final Episode

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Shield: Breaking Episode 315

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Shield

  2002, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Inside TV Land: Cops on Camera

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Good Things

  2001, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Welcome to Hollywood

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Welcome to Hollywood

  1998, role: writer

Ryan, Shawn Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Hot Guys with Guns

  2013, role: actor , character name: Shawn
• Play in Full Screen Nate and Margaret

  2012, role: actor , character name: Joey
• Play in Full Screen Proposition 8 Trial Re-Enactment

  2010, role: actor , character name: Ethan Dettmer

Ryan, Shawn Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Red Lilly

  2010, role: actor , character name: Shawn
• Play in Full Screen Red Lilly

  2010, role: writer

Famous quotes by Shawn Ryan:

"This was really one of the great guys of Hollywood."

"I think everyone would have felt lost if they went home and had to deal with this and had nothing to do."

"Everyone, I think, felt more comfortable staying together and working rather than sitting at home trying to deal with this."

"We've certainly discussed different kinds of departures on this show and on 'The Unit' as well because that's a team that engages in very dangerous activities. It probably would be unrealistic to have a huge number of activities where somebody didn't get killed or very badly wounded. But I've never wanted to do something like this to be edgy, or prove how different we can be. There are shows that do that, and I am never impressed with that. And I think, in the end, the fans see right through it."

"But he's someone that the networks, the studio, I think, in the past viewed a little dangerously. And I'm hoping that any success we might have with this will change their opinions of that because I've never met someone as committed and professional and intent on making good dramas as he is."

"You don't. You just go back and insert some lines."

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

"He's going to be a great foil for the guys on the show."

"He's going to be a great foil for the guys on our show. Forest has always impressed me with his range. He's got an incredible sweetness and soulfulness but also strength. It's a rare combination for an actor and that appealed to me with this character."

"Do we make it seem cool? I think we do. What we're trying to do is tell Eric's story. I think Eric is cool. ... I don't think there's a video game quality to our show, but I think there is something to be said for having a purpose the way Eric did when he spent his life in the military, for showing the sacrifices that these men and their families make."

"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."

"I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience."

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

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

"Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series."

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

"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."

"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."

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

Shawn Ryan