Steven Levy Quotes

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

There's not a lot of light on television.

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

Television and I grew up together.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

In every writers' room I've been in, the first 15-20 minutes of the day are spent discussing water cooler moments from last night's big shows.

People already have tons of regular TV. They don't need more of that.

When I look back at the Nineties, I realise there wasn't very much TV I wanted to do.

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.