Content Improvement Quotes

If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

Everybody needs an editor.

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

When you're writing a blog post, you can take solace in knowing that you will immediately know how people will respond to it, and if the criticism is bad, then that's fine because you can work on that and fix it, and if it's good, then that's great because you know what to do in the future. It gets pushed down so quickly.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

If I post something, and my audience doesn't really like it or if they have other suggestions on how to make it better, I can take that feedback and instantly apply it to the next video.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.