Quotes About Entertainment

People love storylines. They love them because at some point, the talent will get people emotionally invested.

Fans are invested in everything about you now. Back in the day, they just heard your record and saw your video.

A lot of money gets invested in making a film.

As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate that.' But for TV, it has to be yes or no.

My guilty pleasure is watching the Investigation Discovery channel.

Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.

Well, all cricket invites attention.

Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook?

I think television is about the characters you want to see again, and so you want to invite these people into your home. And certainly, seeing them get into bad situations and then watching them have to get themselves out, that's always super satisfying.

If I could throw a dinner party for anyone, I'd invite Lena Dunham, Dave Chappelle, and Gena Rowlands.

I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?

I like inviting people over in the evening, because I don't like moving anywhere.

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

Why is it only when Rajinikanth is involved that you want to write controversies?

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.