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Robert Thompson Quotes
«It was fun to watch these bad people get trashed, and Simon was really good at it. Which was why he became so well-known so quickly.»
Author: Robert Thompson
«the recipe keeps changing, which is actually what other TV shows have never really accomplished.»
Author: Robert Thompson
«Clinton playing the sax -- that's the gold standard. Number one -- because very few candidates had made such appearances before and -- number two -- because he did it on Arsenio Hall, which was kind of a cool, late night thing at the time. But most importantly, he played the sax. That would even be unusual today.»
Author: Robert Thompson
«Reality TV comes along and it proceeds to marry with every other type of program and have offspring. We've got reality TV married to a talent show ? 'Nashville Star' and 'American Idol.' And now I think the same is happening with home improvement shows.»
Author: Robert Thompson
«Even back in the '40s there were home shows -- early, early television -- that would give you various instructions on how to change a light fixture or a switch or something like that,»
Author: Robert Thompson
«They've taken the idea that it used to take a leisurely whole season to achieve, and they've done it in one single episode.»
Author: Robert Thompson
«I think the '70s was the last pure decade. Once you're in the '80s, you're in the post-modern era,»
Author: Robert Thompson
«The thing that science fiction does is what nobody on TV does - outside the news. It looks at the enormous issues of equality, war, feminism, racism, international relations - big, big stories ignored by mainstream TV for obvious reasons. Science fiction is the easiest way to deal with it.»
Author: Robert Thompson
«It was such a great dramatic device, ... For one thing, it was really slow, so there was plenty of time to make some great dramatic proclamations, like `Honey, I love you.'»
Author: Robert Thompson
«The genius of Nickelodeon is that they figured a couple things out, ... They knew that especially among the very young, it was the parent that chose to turn on the TV, so Nickelodeon came up with a program that would appeal to their targets and the parents. They had shows that were cool enough that even the older sibling would watch.»
Author: Robert Thompson