David Duchovny Quotes

I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows in chunks.

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy of the BBC or the other way round. It's not a war; these things can coexist. We can have Amazon and Netflix and the BBC and BT Sport, and people can make choices. That's what modern life is all about.

I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

What's great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering 'Friday Night Lights' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow... things don't get old as fast as they used to. They stay vibrant.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

I download TV shows more and more, especially from the U.S.

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.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.