Nancy Dubuc Quotes

There's nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood again. And, increasingly, there's nothing that could get me interested in the American comics industry again.

Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.

We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.

When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are.

Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

I like working with television. I do.

It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can't make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that's true, that means it should be more expensive. Not 'should' in any moral sense, but simply because that's how the principle of supply and demand works.

Economic policy is like business - it's all about compromise.

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

We're in the entertainment business.

Our country has a capacity to cater to huge demands, both domestic and overseas.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

Moving people into reality TV is a mistake.

Success begets more in television.

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

I trust most people. Not producers.

That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.