Mark Frost Quotes

There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

Everyone knows that in Hollywood, when you're hot, you've got to run with it. Because eventually they kick you out.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

Television shows are not like cars or operating systems, and they are not best made by engineers or coders in the same assembly line manner as consumer products which need to be of uniform size, shape, and quality.

I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.

'Grey's' is one of those shows... that's been able to ride so many waves.

After my show and others like it began airing on TV, network executives started to see that there was a market for outrageous, over-the-top content.

I think the British viewing and listening public are very fickle. If they like you they will listen to you, they will watch you. If they change their mind then it's all over.

Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that's it, and somebody else come in.

I know a Bollywood actress' tenure is limited.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

The market has no morality

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up. Just the concept of "I had this idea" and within a week it was in the world, that was a part of why it felt weirdly empowering as a performer.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.