David Remnick Quotes

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

The consumption of news is up, but the way people are receiving the news has changed

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows.

It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

There was no way to predict that 'This is Us' was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people.

The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

But the one thing I'll always know is that people don't know what they want until they get it. They didn't know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off.

I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

With Ghost, I never really foresaw that it was going to take off the way it did.

The most exciting songs to me are the unlikely hits, when you think, 'I love this, but why is it on the radio?'