We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking John Landgraf Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives – some for better, some for worse.
I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.
I think it would be bad for storytellers in general if one company was able to seize a 40-50-60% share in storytelling. I don’t think monopoly market shares are good for society, and I think they’d be particularly bad for society and storytellers if they were achieved in the storytelling genre.
I don’t want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn’t seem like a good outcome.
You can’t be in a certain business and not sell to Amazon or not sell to Wal-Mart. You have to reckon with them, because even though there are other buyers, they’re the only buyers that matter.
Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?
I have a lot of faith in our showrunners.
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
Even good shows can fail to find an audience because they’re drowned out by the noise and the sheer volume of everything that is being made. It’s one of the downsides of there being, as I’ve argued, too many shows.
I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.
I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.
Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.
You look at who’s actually created shows for FX that have succeeded, and there are a lot of first-time showrunners – Ryan Murphy, Denis Leary, Louis C.K., the ‘It’s Always Sunny’ creators, Kurt Sutter, Joe Weisberg, Pamela Adlon, Donald Glover.
We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That’s our job.
We are the only animal that tells stories.
Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.
I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.
