Scott M. Gimple Quotes

I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.

I just don't think you can lump television shows together.

I do realize that television shows end.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.

American television really is pathetic.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do.

I love True Blood and Buffy, and, obviously, this is one of my favorite jobs that I've ever had - but not just because it's horror, but because the cast is so good and the writing is so great.

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

I don't like doing regressive saas-bahu shows on television.

A lot of TV has moved away from family viewing. But with 'The Royal Bodyguard,' we have tried to make a show when no one will be worried about sitting there with their kids or their grandma.

I've been on 'iCarly' and 'Hannah Montana.' And a few other things.

Television, nowadays, is like doing really long films.

You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.

I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show.

Every single television product has the ambition to chase ratings, every one of them. Many have other ambitions, for many, ratings are not #1. But my experience on TV, and on the entertainment side, has been entirely ratings-based. When I look at TV I look at ratings. And I never second guess ratings. Never.

'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff.

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

I’ve been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about. This one’s fun because a lot more people are interested in the show, wanting to talk about the mystery and that kind of stuff.

I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show.

True Blood and Buffy are both horror-based shows, but I think that they're extremely different from one another. I think it's really cool that I've been able to do True Blood and then this. It's really nice career-wise for me.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.