Poppy Montgomery Quotes

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks. I know what the critics love. We write and produce for people, not for critics.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

I believe in cinema! Unfortunately, 90 per cent of Hindi cinema is non-cinema. Only marketing works here. Even the item songs in these films are an extension of marketing.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

I think the way I sort of approach it is, you just sort of keep your head down and focus on what you are doing and making shows that people will want to see on Thursday night.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.