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I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

— Michael Schur

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

— Shawn Ryan

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

— Tim Finchem

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.

— Michael Schur

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

— Lauren Graham

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

— Michael Schur

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

— Steven Moffat

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

— Eddie Marsan

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

— Scott Weiland

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

— Hugh Laurie

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

— Paul McGann