Will McDonough Quotes

Television can be a very fickle place.

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

You can get on television all the time if you have the money to buy the time.

There’s not a single question about television that can’t be answered in one word: money.

Why don't I earn very much? I don't know; you'd have to ask my agent. Maybe I'm just not very bright!

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I started television in 2015.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

My day job is making TV shows.

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.

One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that way.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

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

It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a show on, because it's important to the network because it sells good commercial time. That's really not how HBO does things.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

I guess this is the week that I earn my salary.

Television looked at politicians and saw a bottomless pit of advertising.

You've got to ask for more money.

Why would you want to work in television. I don’t watch television.

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.