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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.