Quotes from Kevin Reilly

When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.

Rather than make 20 things and throw them at the wall and hope you get 6 that maybe feel like keepers, why not focus?

One of the things I truly enjoy about my job is the dynamic nature of having a foot in each world - the world of the talent, who create our product - and the world of our business in which we market, distribute, and monetize that product.

Before there was cable, Fox was cable.

Fox was the challenger to cable before there was cable.

The one thing that I'm really obsessed with is multi-camera comedy. It is a form that is unique to network television.

It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.

I love my job, but I'd really love my job if I didn't have to live and die by ratings every day.

The biggest move that put Fox on the map, from an entertainment perspective, was when 'The Simpsons' moved to Thursday night, and that was paired with 'Martin' and 'Living Single.'

The way television is done, you're kind of set on a certain path, and then episodic directors come in every week to try to recreate that.

It's always a good problem to have to hear people saying they want to see more.

Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.'

'Friday Night Lights' was never a break-out hit; I'll never regret doing that show.

Producing a one-hour show that has to reinvent musical numbers, and interpret those musical numbers with a large cast, is difficult.

Trying to find big hits has always been a needle-in-a-haystack endeavor.

Every television show is hard to do, but when you're in genre and you're recreating worlds and mythologies, they're particularly hard.

I remember coming up in the business and seeing how the grind turned some executives into grizzled cynics. And I vowed to never become that guy. I have always believed it's incumbent upon network brass to bring a wide-eyed optimism to the chairs they rent. Talent deserves that. And frankly, the jobs are just no fun otherwise.

How people watch and the different ways they connect to TV - you're going to see some expansion and radical transformation.

The 10 million views on YouTube are... worthless to us as a business.

We're in the culture business. You are constantly monitoring cultural shifts, current events, shifts in mores, things that reflect society, and, at times, we try to drive it.

One thing that cable has done is trained the audience that, when a TV show is on, it should be on.

I do believe that the audience is capable of embracing quality. But a lot of times, they'll be like, 'Why isn't there ever anything good on TV? Put something good on.' 'Uh, if you watched this, it would help.'

I've spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.

Unfortunately, there is no 'X Factor U.S.A.' without Simon Cowell.