Harry Cohn Quotes

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.'

I realized very quickly that the public has a perfect right to tell you what they want to see.

Give the people what they think they want.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.

Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.

I am someone who pays attention to the currents that are going on socially in terms of what people want. When I catch wind of the types of matches people want, those are the matches I want, too.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

I have come East to find what the public likes.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

The public is always right.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.