Budget Quote by Seth MacFarlane

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

— Dean Devlin

What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a…

— Holly Hunter

I think, a lot of times, network shows are under a lot of mandates. There's a lot of moving pieces. There's a lot of…

— Cameron Monaghan

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side…

— Bill Lawrence

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

— Ed Schultz

I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process…

— Bear McCreary

Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now,…

— James Patterson

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that…

— Roone Arledge

It's just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe…

— Madchen Amick

You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

— James Purefoy

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes…

— Shawn Ryan

Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama…

— Damon Lindelof