Hilary Rosen Quotes

It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I have a very small public.

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'

I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.

I've done a lot of independent films that not a lot of people have seen.

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

One thing that we have found over the years is that video games themselves are a thing that have a tendency to be difficult for them to break out of a particular segment, or a particular group, or a particular group of people with particular interests.

When I first created the world of 'Mr. Robot,' I thought it would be a niche television series with a small, cult following.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

I've kinda been an off-Broadway sensation. There aren't a lot of lights or big marquees around my name or my work, yet my core audience knows exactly where I am.

There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre.

When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

I think that when you start rolling with an entourage, you attract attention, and you tend to create this whole big thing. My mom taught me that when you keep a low profile, most people tend to totally miss you because they're not expecting anything.

I do feel like, because my podcast is so specific, I've been really fortunate in that the kind of people it attracts tend to have interests that run with mine.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.

We've found that the more niche you are, the better off you are.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

It's not about creating something that eight billion people would like. It's about creating something and being able to reach the maybe, like, one million people that would like it a lot.