Dennis Prager Quotes

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.

I respect the hell out of everyone who does a network show. That is a marathon. It's so many episodes, and it can be a meat grinder. Anyone making a network show, and on top of that making a very good network show, that's an insane feat of Herculean endurance and fortitude.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

Let me complain-it's good for television.

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.