Show Quality Quotes

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

When you’re good at improv, even when you’re going to deliver somebody else’s line that they’ve written, you’ve got to nail it. And sometimes it’s not going to be as good as you think, and you have to not worry about hurting each other’s feelings. All that matters is the product itself. All that matters is the show.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.' To do that so fast and to do that, if it's very successful, for nine months out of the year, for a bunch of good years, that's challenging. But, it was interesting. It's a good show. You'd have to have a very good character, I guess.

I think that Enterprise was getting better and better, actually, and if it had kept going, I think it would've turned into as good a show as any other in the Star Trek franchise.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

The best shows I've done, the writers, actors, and directors have been pretty much left alone - maybe given a little guidance to make it a little more this or more that. But the heavier the hand on the show, I find, the more troubled the show is.

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

If you've paid your hard-earned money to see a gig, you want to be entertained. That's what I wanna give my fans.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

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

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

I don't think the expectation is that the 'Psych' musical is going to be 'Rent,' so I think as long as we didn't completely humiliate ourselves and it is funny and it is in the tone of what we do, we'd have a fighting chance of pulling it off.

That first episode of 'Newsroom,' the way it just cooked, I thought it was really good.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

If you are tuning in just for the show, you're going to be sorely disappointed.