I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.
In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
No one is original. Everyone is derivative.
Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.
Cliches are what make you understand something.
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.
Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.
In film, in general, you have just so many cliche themes or stories that are told over and over again.
Most of my cliches aren't original.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.
With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that.
