top of page
"The show had run its course on the Fox network."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Network quotes

"If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room."

"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."

"If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?"

"I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network."

"With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable."

"We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data."

"You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there."
Explore more quotes by Will Arnett

"No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted."

"And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development."

"Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people."

"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint."

"And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors."

"I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order."

"This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on."

"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."

"Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well."
bottom of page