David Harbour Quotes

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

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

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it?

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

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

'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however.

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.

A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.

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