Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

I have great respect for daytime drama. I love the branding. I love the style. What can I say? I love good soap!

I used to watch 'EastEnders' till the plots got ridiculous.

I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little while and it's safe in that you are watching other people go through some troubles rather than yourself. It's there every night, and there is something special about that sort of terrestrial television experience for a mass audience.

I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'

I was a big fan of 'Days of Our Lives' growing up.

I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.

I miss watching TV and thinking they were all real. I used to feel like that about 'Neighbours.'

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

Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.

Life, especially life on soaps, sometimes needs a reality check.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

If I have a rare Saturday night when I can go out to see a movie, I look at the paper and I go, 'Hmm, what's the best medicine for my mind?' I'm going, 'What's the most escapist, fun entertainment I can go to?' So I think that's number one, first and foremost, because that's why I think people go to movies. It's a bonus that there's something real.

I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are completely transported into an escapist situation. The women are beautiful, the men are witty and heroic, nobody has terrible problems and this is a delightful escapist thing, and you leave the theater refreshed.

The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were gathered around watching soap operas. That was the escapism, the show that was giving you something you couldn't have. Now, you go into any sorority house, there are 50 to 100 girls piled in watching The Bachelor. We are the modern-day soap opera.

Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it.

If you go to the real West Wing in the White House it looks like a boring law office; there's really not a whole lot going on in series. The moulding is frayed, the carpet is a little dirty; it's not exciting.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding.

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. But also the main characters are completely real and modern so you can relate to them.