People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.
You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.
I think I was told numerous times in the industry that nobody wants to watch a guy on a keyboard.
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.
I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
I've enjoyed watching 'Lost.' I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'
I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.
I don't want to consider myself a TV5 favorite, but it's a blessing that I have more shows than the others.
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Although readers and viewers tell us that they do not want this filth, that is exactly what they read and tune in to.
It proves what they say, give the public what they want to see and they'll come out for it.
Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.
There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.
I have realized that the taste of the viewer can constantly change. So you need to sniff out the need for change. Constantly restructuring your own business to cater to changing taste is imperative.
3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.
Reality TV - I'm not trying to dog it, everybody has their own thing, you know - but I didn't see it for me.
