Siddharth Shukla Quotes

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

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

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

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

After my show and others like it began airing on TV, network executives started to see that there was a market for outrageous, over-the-top content.

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

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

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

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy of the BBC or the other way round. It's not a war; these things can coexist. We can have Amazon and Netflix and the BBC and BT Sport, and people can make choices. That's what modern life is all about.

The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.

The competitive landscape for us is very broad. We see ourselves in the entertainment space. We compete with listening to the radio. We compete with watching TV. We compete with social networks.

In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.