Barun Sobti Quotes

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

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

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews a director of a movie that didn't perform well in the box office, and he says, 'The audience didn't understand my movie.' If people didn't go to buy the ticket, then you did the wrong movie.

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.

I want to be associated with good entertainment.

The more channels putting money into quality programming the better.

Without talent, I don't care how funny the writers are or how many comedy lines they come up, without wrestlers you can't have a wrestling program.

A good content always allows me to reach the depth of the characters, and thus, the performance looks more relatable and truthful.

Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.