152 Quotes by Robert Thompson

The coverage we saw on September 11, and in that first week of Katrina, not only won't make this stuff go away, it ups the ante. You don't want to just see the Hollywood sign fall, you want the Statue of Liberty along with it.

There is certainly some award-show fatigue. I lost count a few years ago of all of them.

It really kind of works in its absolute, utter simplicity, its kind of stripped down Zen-like quality.

There are two revolutions taking place. One revolution is taking place in the living room with high definition, bigger and wider screens. The second revolution is portable television.

For all the enormous social and cultural upheaval and change and revolution which we've all come to know as cliched definitions of the '60s, prime-time television in this country managed to almost completely ignore it,

So many of these reality shows sound so egregious on paper. The automatic response when you hear this is to think, 'Oh man, how low can we sink?' But it's all going to depend on how it's executed.

It's the only television entity of any kind that ever had a generation named after it,

Since these competitions can also lend themselves to television broadcasts, there is no reason to believe that we may not see more organized competitions in the future, ... If television can figure out how to make playing cards interesting, it should certainly be able to do so with video games.

It's a policy to honor donor intent. It's a double-edged sword and it's one we don't like to have to encounter, but we understand and do our best to let people know we've reached our fund-raising goals in those instances.