"The public are not stupid."
"Everybody likes a roller coaster ride."
"Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it’s all about. Great editing makes those shows."
"I think that’s where reality TV works – you don’t know where it’s going."
"If you’re rude for television’s sake, it ain’t reality TV."
"There’s a certain edge about cruelty. If you’re honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said."
"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they’ve found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."
"I don’t mind losing, but I don’t like losing to cheats."
"Reality TV is here, it’s been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It’s never changed. It just looks a bit different."
"I was very cheap – that’s the way I’d always worked."