Quotes About Viewership

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership.

What's cool about YouTube, unlike TV, is that there isn't that competition element. I mean, you could make it into that, as there's obviously numbers involved, but people are free to watch whoever they want.

YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

YouTube consumption is entirely based on good content. If you don't put out good content, people will not consume it.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

Now we know that if we make a ten min video for YouTube, people will watch it.

If YouTube has plenty of premium content, people will watch that in the same way they watch 'Game of Thrones' or 'Breaking Bad.'

YouTube has a stigma about only kids watching it. That's true. It is mostly kids and teenagers who watch it. But I've never made videos for teenagers. They should not be watching my videos.

Now, with YouTube, the audience decides. You can make something that is 20 minutes long or one minute long.

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.

You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

I think audiences were somewhere fed up with watching the same Saas-Bahu soaps all the time. I've been part of one of them.

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

When I was on 'Head of the Class,' 25 million, 30 million people would watch that every night - now a big hit doesn't get a third of that audience.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.