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Robert Thompson Quotes
«There simply are not a lot of really good movies that people were interested in. Every time a new element enters the field -- movies have to be better to attract people.»
«The equity of our celebrities now exceeds the equity of the media that gave them status in the first place. Film, television and radio are now so fragmented that the one thing we all share is the celebrities themselves. Celebrity has become the one common denominator.»
«If you'd have told me 10 years ago that one of the biggest new phenomena of the 21st century was people playing cards, I would have said you were absolutely crazy.»
«Parents are now talking about kids staying home playing poker instead of going out to movies. It opened up this whole other area.»
«There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.»
«The idea is, 'Let's move these units off the shelf for Christmas and let's get as many people under the tent as possible. You'll bring people in with temptation to see these shows but eventually I think a new aesthetic will be need to be devised, a kind of new show that falls between the high production of 'Lost' and radio.»
«This is to 'Star Search' what modern quantum physics is to Newtonian notions of physics. It's so brilliantly put together. For one thing, it's two different shows. There's the show before they pick the final 12, which is essentially a delicious reality show with lots of mocking of people, laughing at the people who are really bad and all that kind of stuff. And then it transforms after the final 12 into a really good, old-fashioned, family-friendly talent show.»
«Males ages 18 to 34 and 18 to 49, for that matter, have long been a desirable demo for TV networks.»
«How long have we been hearing about all this new technology and the breathless cries of revolution, and it never happened? This year, the tipping point occurred.»
«It is one of the few shows on American television, especially after you get past those first couple of weeks, where really little kids love it, grandma loves it. It's got the kind of wide appeal we used to see all the time on network TV that we very seldom see anymore.»