Content Choice Quotes

I don't want to be a part of something I don't want to watch.

I always believe an actor is as good as the content as he gets or chooses.

It's something I decided from the very beginning I would never do - nudity.

If you care about who I want to write about, I'll write about the people you want to read about.

I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows.

MySpace News is designed to let users decide what's most relevant to them, and we've given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.

Content films necessary don't go by the content, they go by the emotions. Content films are about content whether you want to portray the content or sell it through humour, through seriousness, is a choice of the filmmaker.

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.

While choosing shows, I look at stories and the concept, and that has to be different.

I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back. I couldn't quite wrap my head around it. But now that I'm deeply in, as a watcher of content, what a brilliant business model. As a consumer, it's empowering to choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. I have three small children, so I need that flexibility, in order to really get into a show. And being on a Netflix show, it's perfect timing. I feel so grateful.

I don't have regular TV; I have Apple TV, so I pick what I watch, which is perhaps not a good thing. I read all the big publications and also listen to a lot of podcasts.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Write something that you are comfortable with. Do not venture into something that you do not want to write about, because gradually, your discomfort with the subject will begin to show.

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.

I get tired of people trying to dog out the radio for not playing this or that. There are lots of people who like what they play - otherwise, they wouldn't play it.

I showed sideboob. I don't need to show ass. You get one or the other. You don't get both.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.