Quotes About Entertainment

If comedy can be both - silly and fun but also say something and start a dialogue - that's the most you can ever ask for.

What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

In the U.S., many people thought what we were doing was frothy, silly, just not serious enough. The kind of pop role-playing we were aiming for was out of place in American pop culture.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

I'm not saying that comedy has to be a certain thing - I'm not trying to define comedy, where it's like, it can only be silly things. But I think part of what makes a comedy is that at least part of the mantra of the show is trying to make people laugh.

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.'

Jeetendra and I had 14 silver jubilee films.

The brilliance of 'Sharknado 2' is it's more of the same - similar formula, more of the experience.

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.

Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in the writing and acting on both!

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

If Simon Cowell asked me, of course I would love to do 'X Factor.'

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.