Quotes About Selection

Whenever I pick a script, I make sure I'm choosing something I would want to watch. And 'Quantico' was something I'd definitely want to watch. As soon as I read the pilot - and I read 26 this season - I knew this was it.

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing it.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

It is difficult to pinpoint my favorite comedies.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models.

A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

I always liked the idea in 'Potter' that you don't choose the wand, the wand chooses you, and that relics decide when you're ready to handle them. I'm a cinephile first and a filmmaker second, and it's all swimming in the subconscious.

Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.

As a presenter on 'Daybreak,' I am lucky in that we have a brilliant wardrobe lady who chooses our on-screen clothes.

Normcore doesn't equal wearing the first pair of jeans and T-shirt from your wardrobe. Behind dressing easy, lies a precise selection.

We recruit our people for personality. We look for the people person, with innate warmth, sweetness, and intelligence. These are the people who are sending your message out to the customers and potential customers, so we recruit for personality first and foremost.

Consistency in selection is great but it's a whole lot easier if you've got players who warrant that consistency through their performances.

When I got 'Youth,' I also got a small role in 'Star Wars.' I didn't know what to do. I decided to choose based on the character.

I'd like to be more decisive. I can take an hour to choose between two brands of washing powder in the supermarket.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.