Patricia Arquette Quotes

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

For network TV, you obviously have to appeal to a wide viewership.

I think you can tour the country and collectively reach fewer people than just being on television one time.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

It's just amazing how television permeates the entire world from people who are just listeners and viewers to people of considerable importance who find relaxation watching television. Somebody called it a talking lamp. Television, that is.

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

The new national campfire - radio.

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 don't think of myself as anything more than a person who sits in the living room with you telling you a story. I just happen to be in 16 million living rooms.

All the 'Today show' viewer wants, I think, is a friendly face.

'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.

Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.

TV is still a 'push' medium - we are broadcasting into any home or business with basic cable, and depending on what's happening in the world, we have a wider audience, from news junkies to very sporadic viewers. On TV, you want your reporting to be valuable to that entire audience and be relevant.

At the end of the day, television is an entertainment platform and we are here to entertain the masses.

Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things.

There is that whole realization that I'm not just speaking to Filipinos anymore: I'm speaking to a global audience.

Everyone may not go and buy a ticket to watch a movie, but everyone has a television at home. It definitely has a huge reach and a huge connect with the audience.

'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest rated shows.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.