Robert Greenblatt Quotes

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.

Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.

Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.' It was on 'FOX' in 2004.

Insurance companies don't make anything.

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

AllianceTexas is a cash machine for our public partners.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

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

'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

There’s not a single question about television that can’t be answered in one word: money.

I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.

I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.

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.'

Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.

I think NBC bought SCTV because it was developing a nice cult feel.

The working standards on television in our country are really bad. The sad part is that many actors take this deal because it gets them money and recognition.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

Getting into network television was tougher than I thought it was gonna be.