I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.
I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.
Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.
The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.
I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.