John Landgraf Quotes

Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.

[Formula One] is entertainment and it competes with other entertainments - and not with other racing formats. It competes with people's time on a weekend. So you have to deliver.

There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

I want to be the most exciting fighter out there.

I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.