Carly Steel Quotes

I'm a huge E! fan. Every hotel room, I watch it all the time. 'E! News' is fantastic.

I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.

I loved reading magazines about the entertainment world.

Though all festivals are important, this Cannes Festival starts off the season.

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'

When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.

I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.

I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'

Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.

I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had an audience of about 40,000. I happily returned to the 10-day skein nearly every year thereafter, as attendance swelled to 400,000 and it grew into the most influential film festival in North America, perhaps the world.

Usually, when I'm at a festival with a movie that I'm in, I'm in and out in 24 hours.

Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.

I was the first person from my family to enter films. So, everything connected with films was new to me, including fans and fan clubs.