Unfortunately, there is no 'X Factor U.S.A.' without Simon Cowell.
The 10 million views on YouTube are... worthless to us as a business.
I've respected the people that I've worked for, and they've been supportive and respectful of me.
Before there was cable, Fox was cable.
Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.'
Every television show is hard to do, but when you're in genre and you're recreating worlds and mythologies, they're particularly hard.
Narrative storytelling is wired into our humanity.
When you start to feel you're not coming to work with the same enthusiasm, maybe you shouldn't hang onto that job.
Fox was the challenger to cable before there was cable.
Nobody watches commercials if you ask them. Nevertheless, they watch commercials.
How people watch and the different ways they connect to TV - you're going to see some expansion and radical transformation.
Pilots are useful. You just learn things during a pilot - the piece of casting that just wasn't right or things about the storytelling nature.
'Surviving Jack' was actually a really nice show that was very well-run creatively.
People love television; they're watching a lot of it in a lot of ways.
I, for one - I'm not a believer that, now that the Facebooks and Googles and everyone is entering the content fray, that it's a foregone conclusion that they're just going to get it right and be amazing at it. It's really hard.
When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.
One thing that cable has done is trained the audience that, when a TV show is on, it should be on.
It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.
Producing a one-hour show that has to reinvent musical numbers, and interpret those musical numbers with a large cast, is difficult.
It used to be a given that the talent and the talent agencies would line up around the broadcast pitch season first and then take whatever was still available out to cable. I hate to say it, but it's just not going down that way anymore. There are things that are bypassing the broadcast networks altogether.
