Shaunie O'Neal Quotes

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?

It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

I think that a movie of a TV show is really tricky, and I don't know if it's ever really been done well. Because it's really hard if you have a 22-minute show, especially something like 'Party Down,' where it's all contained at the party.

For years, people had been saying, 'You guys should have a reality show - it would be crazy,' and I didn't pay much attention to that talk, but the idea did stay in the back of my mind.

Working on 'WAGS' is obviously very different than working on wrestling television. It's very different in the way that there is not nearly as much to do for 'WAGS.'

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don't know if it would ultimately be worth it. The sort of format that I have, these TV things, sit somewhere between documentaries and reality shows and entertainment shows and dramas.

Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw 'Chicago' or 'Hairspray.'

Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.

I never thought someone would make a film on my story.

I would watch 'the Kardashians' and think, I could do that.

I like the fact that 'Total Divas' give you a behind-the-scenes look at what really happens.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.