Robert Greenblatt Quotes & Sayings

We had some ups and downs, creatively, as the season went on, which is true of any show. If you compound that by the production that we go through, in terms of original songwriting and recordings, and all that is happening simultaneously, where we didn't do as good a job, as I hope we do this year, is the arcing of the storylines and the consistency of going in one direction with a character, and continuing in a really interesting way with that arc. — Robert Greenblatt

It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us. — Robert Greenblatt

The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And broadcast shows tend to be more mainstream or middle-of-the-road. — Robert Greenblatt

I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week. — Robert Greenblatt

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves. — Robert Greenblatt

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works. — Robert Greenblatt

I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it. — Robert Greenblatt

I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we'd ultimately like, as we go forward. — Robert Greenblatt

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system. — Robert Greenblatt

In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that. — Robert Greenblatt

I have throbbing headaches about a lot of things, and Howard Stern isn't one of them. — Robert Greenblatt

The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable. — Robert Greenblatt

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in. — Robert Greenblatt

I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story. — Robert Greenblatt