Bill Lawrence Quotes

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Large podcasts have a successful and sustainable business model in live show touring.

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue.

The commercial press is not a free press, and it is not a public service organization. It is business, big business, and as such is motivated by one principle - profit.

Before the Netflixs and the Amazons and the Hulus, there was nothing. TV came to a standstill. Movie actors were taking TV parts, and it was just nuts.

The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

Before 'New Girl,' I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don't know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be - and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there - to get a show on the air and keep it going.

I think that network TV is going to either have to reinvent itself or it's going to have to be more competitive - there are just so many options now with streaming and everything.

I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.