Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

You would obviously like to be on BBC2, BBC1 all the time.

There are very few things that 13 million people tune in to witness, so television is a really relevant and powerful thing.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.

You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?' So I said to my parents, 'You know, I don't think I'll go into seminary right away. I think I'll go into television.'

When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

Television is a huge medium and the best way to popularize yourself.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

I want to be read. When you write a TV show like 'The Wire,' you've got three to four million readers watching your work. Even Grisham doesn't sell that many books.

Television leaves no external scars.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

It's nice to be part of a film that will be watched by a large audience.