Adrian Pasdar Quotes

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.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.

Moving people into reality TV is a mistake.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

But reality television is here to stay.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

I like how TV used to be - 'Boys from the Blackstuff' and 'Play for Today', instead of 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'Celebrity Come Cook With Me' or whatever. I hate all that stuff.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

There's not a lot of light on television.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

I actually do enjoy the Kardashians' show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show - I'm just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people are courageous in acts of war, but I'm courageous in my love for the Kardashians.

Give the public what it wants.