Ben Silverman Quotations

The main factor is being able to walk into an office and put on a tape and speak to a track record.

The audience relates immediately with the kind of person a celebrity is. They have some sort of familiarity with the viewers. They know Tony Gonzalez is a football stud. When you're casting real people, you're trying to put them into a type. Here we go out and say this is a jock. The audience gets to know the characters quicker.

My own feeling is, these are aging franchises,

We love watching Steve's film career flourish. We love watching his films, and we love participating in everybody's success.

The more ideas that pop, the more open to new ideas the American market is.

These shows are about taking a celebrity out of their comfort zone and showing them in a different environment than you're used to seeing them. All of these celebrities are people who love cooking anyway.

Eurovision' is the granddaddy of all talent shows and the Super Bowl of singing.

The government has to ask at what point has there been too much consolidation. I think we may be reaching the breaking point.

He's a classy brand and a brilliant coach.

They're getting squeezed in the region with the two goliaths coming at them from all directions.