Franklin Cover Quotes

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or 'MTV.' I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.

The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.

Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

Popularity is totally overrated.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.

I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.