Entertainment Production Quotes

I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.

I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

When we first sat down and talked about how much of the show we were going to do based on the movie, there are certainly things you can see right away, but we wanted to make sure that the audience who maybe never saw the movie or has maybe never seen any of the Marvel characters before - and I know there's three of them left on the planet - could have someone that could be their eyes and take them in.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

Animated program was definitely a different process but it was fun though, it had elements of doing my podcast where we were all in a booth with microphones joking around and stuff. It was definitely a fun process.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

I would love to produce a film.

What I want to do is make things that I think people want to watch. I'm a film fan, so I think I'm in touch with other film fans and that they might want to watch stuff. The other reason I really don't care is because no matter what you do in life, no matter what you wear, or what you say, people are going to like it or they're not. And that is all. Everything, down to the socks I chose today - people are going to like them or they're not and there's nothing you can do about that.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.

I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.

'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.

Now, when building a show, I ask myself the question - like, 'Jumping off this table will be really cool, but can I do that eight times a week?'.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.