Terence Winter Quotes

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

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.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

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

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

There's not a lot of light on television.

I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

If you make compelling television, they will come.