“[A little more than a year after the comic entered syndication, it was collected in a book that became a bestseller -- which helped the newspaper client list grow faster.] I was not prepared for the resulting attention, ... Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and the inhibiting quality of feeling watched, I valued my anonymous, boring life. In fact, I didn't see how I could write honestly without it. A year later, I moved out west, got an unlisted phone number, stopped giving interviews, and tried to fly as low under the radar as possible. Of course, some reporters took this as a personal challenge to intrude, but in general, my quiet life let me concentrate on my work.”
Bill Watterson
“You have to be local, local, local, ... Secondly, if you're going to have syndication, it better be the best syndicated program there is.”
Bob Zimmerman
“There's a huge trend with networks and these procedural dramas, and we saw the same need in the syndication field.”
Josh Raphaelson
“Sitting with him, they wanted to do network, they wanted to do syndication, ... I've got to get that ['Ben Stein'] time period back on Comedy Central. It supported a game show that was intelligent and smart.”
Michael Davies
“Response to syndication of our exit facility is yet another validation of the substantial and sustainable improvements made during our restructuring.”
Jake Brace
“'Alias' sold [in syndication] for $175,000 an episode; 'Criminal Intent' sold for 1,100 percent more. Do the math,”
Dick Wolf
“I don't see them as comic books. I look at them and I see great arcs, pinks against reds; I start building with the stuff and pretty soon a design starts to happen.”
Daniel O'Connor
