Ted Koppel Quotes

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise to the top and find an audience, and you don't have to impress one idiosyncratic commissioning editor.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.

For network TV, you obviously have to appeal to a wide viewership.

'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

You want to work on something that people watch and that people like.

Anytime you're lucky enough to be on something that lasts longer than half a season, you never quite know what kind of life the show is gonna take on.

I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's intention is just to make money and exploit something for profit, then it's not good. If it's thoughtfully done, the proof's in the pudding.

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.

I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.

I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.

A lot of shows, like 'Cupid,' that I loved with all my heart, it shouldn't have been canceled.