Jeffrey Bewkes Quotes

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

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

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.

HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

If you had to pay separately for just PBS, probably, sadly, not a majority of Americans would do that. So there's many channels, whether it's Discovery Channel or C-SPAN or many, many others, that just aren't viable.

The reality is, 'Game of Thrones' has been a successful show for HBO, which has put us in a position to come and pitch another show and get them excited about it. And that's what helped get us here.

As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.

There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.

I'm a journalist and, before, a next TV star.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.

Television is better than it's ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed - because of how complicated they are to make - toward Netflix and other channels on cable.

Look, I don't want to edit the 'Scotsman.' I have too many other things going on. I have four newspapers to run and two dot com companies going gangbusters.

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.

With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.