Bob Odenkirk Quotes

Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

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

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

Everybody is talking about cord cutting. It's not about the cord. It's the content.

We like the fact people who watch the telecasts get excited about something they see.

I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

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

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

I think summer has become a venue for TV like it hasn't been in years past, especially on Sunday nights. I know that when I'm winding down at the end of the weekend, just a really great TV show or movie is exactly what the doctor ordered.

It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

Cable TV? Stressful? Never.

TV is a level playing field, and you're competing for eyeballs.

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.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.