Jeremy Clarkson Quotes

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

As far as I'm concerned, 'This Morning' has always pushed the boundaries.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with.

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people.

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.

I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and, you know, you're allowed to make such great television.

There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies.

'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think is funny.

Films are not meant to be watched only by fans but by everyone. Fans are those who like what we do. When we do things that only they like, then we are becoming their fans.

TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.

When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us.

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.