Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.
I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and 'Meet the Press,' all that fun, exciting stuff.
Reality TV is anything but.
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.
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.