Kevin Reilly

“You always want to trust talent; that's the best thing.”

“'Friday Night Lights' was never a break-out hit; I'll never regret doing that show.”

“I'm trying to be a broadcaster and have a big cultural impact.”

“The way television is done, you're kind of set on a certain path, and then episodic directors come in every week to try to recreate that.”

“Nobody watches commercials if you ask them. Nevertheless, they watch commercials.”

“One thing that cable has done is trained the audience that, when a TV show is on, it should be on.”

“TV has so many access points, so many availabilities. DVR, binge viewing.”

“When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.”

“Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge.”

“There are not going to be hundreds of cable networks doing original programming; they won't be able to sustain the model.”

“I love my job, but I'd really love my job if I didn't have to live and die by ratings every day.”

“I love TV. Always have. Since my mother told me to stop sitting so close and watching so much.”

“Rather than make 20 things and throw them at the wall and hope you get 6 that maybe feel like keepers, why not focus?”

“Every television show is hard to do, but when you're in genre and you're recreating worlds and mythologies, they're particularly hard.”

“As an industry, when you're in the talent business, we are way too obsessed on the competition with each other and not enough with the consumer.”

“'Glee' is produced with three people and written by three people. In my mind, I don't believe there's any other show on television that was written by three people. The fact is there are shows that have 14, 15, or 16 people writing them.”

“Producing a drama is particularly difficult.”

“I always believe that if you stick with quality and give people a chance at the time, that people eventually get on board with it. It's been my experience more than not. Once in a while, there's a show that you just can't seem to break through on.”

“Unfortunately, there is no 'X Factor U.S.A.' without Simon Cowell.”

“Trying to make programs that are all things to everyone is not going to work.”