Henry Blodget 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.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

I did a lot of multi-cam shows when I first started coming out to L.A.

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

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

One of the things I've learned - before I would go on a show, I was like, "Oh God, I hate that show" or "That show is gonna get canceled." But now after being full-time on a show, you see how difficult it is and how much work goes into it and how so many decisions are based on finances or people's schedules or talent or location issues. It's a miracle that anything gets made.

I like working in television because it's an evolving story that you tell. That's also one of the things I don't like about it, too. Because sometimes it's hard, and just when I think I've nailed something, it changes or we have to change it or change the joke or the character is evolving in a way that I don't have control over.

It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of them get to weigh in and you have to listen to all of them because they hired you. With TV, it's a way smaller scale, with only a few people weighing in.

Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that.

Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

You can shoot a show and have it not air. It's not real until it's airing.

It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people's stories.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.