Anita Elberse Quotes

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

I have come East to find what the public likes.

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.

Films are just consumables.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies.

I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

The demand for entertainment is insatiable.