Shawn Ryan Quotes

I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

It's a strange thing to have a successful television show because if it's too interesting... people don't really pay attention when they watch TV. It has to be good, but not so interesting that you really have to pay attention because people multitask. So, if a show demands your entire attention, it has a tough time making it.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

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

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.