Unscripted Content Quotes

I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

I love documentary because it's alive.

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

Reality TV - I'm not trying to dog it, everybody has their own thing, you know - but I didn't see it for me.

My guiltiest pleasure in life is 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' I watch them all - old, new - I don't care. Despite how bad the writing is on the show. The people getting hit and hurt, that's hilarious.

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

Lifetime never had any unscripted shows, really. It just had 'Project Runway,' which was a bit of an island.

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.

All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren't the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling.

That's what happens in feature docs. The more time you spend, the more nuance emerges, the more a story evolves - but it's different than fiction, where you can reshoot something.

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

My first TV show was 2003. You wouldn't be in the game this long if you were using stooges and actors and all that kind of stuff; quite honestly, the answer is we don't need them.

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

The whole time I was in WWE, I was like, 'We need a reality show,' because the stuff that goes down is just crazy.