Sponsorship Quote by Arundhati Roy

Success and failure are temporary in TV.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

The television business in general is based not so much on the hope of success, but the fear of failure and that's one fear…

— Ken Wahl

“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.”

— Steve Whigham

It is a tragedy when you pay to make a public broadcaster survive.

— Smriti Irani

“No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.”

— David Foster Wallace

“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged…

— John Updike

TV is a cruel mistress; you can't afford to fail in any way.

— Arlene Phillips

“Reality shows were cheaper than decent drama, and money meant more than legacy, so crap kept piling on top of crap until 1,000 channels…

— Hugh Howey

“Despair leads to distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Television is populated with commitment-phobes.

— Rob Lowe

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

— Greg Berlanti