Doug Herzog quote: "With all due respect to Jay and Dave and everybody out there, they're doing very similar kinds of shows in formats that are nearly as old as television. I do believe those traditional formats are growing tired, and younger viewers are growing tired of them."

We have to do this because we have no idea what the future foretells. He hasn't been able to articul...
DOUG HERZOG

We have repeatedly tried to get Dave to figure out what he'd like to do with this stuff and it hasn'...
DOUG HERZOG

The audience has been telling us for a long time that they want to see more, so we thought we'd try ...
DOUG HERZOG

When . . . little, tiny Comedy Central is on the cover of Newsweek magazine -- who's battling Time m...
DOUG HERZOG

It's a sensitive issue and we'll be keeping our eye on it, no question about it.
DOUG HERZOG

We don't want to be strictly a teen network. We don't think there's a good business for us in that,
DOUG HERZOG

It's always nice to see fans passionate and getting behind shows. But at the same time, these are ch...
DOUG HERZOG

At the very least, we're hoping to stretch the audience 'The Daily Show' attracts which is a very...
DOUG HERZOG

I was at Comedy Central when we launched the first season of South Park and I am thrilled to see the...
DOUG HERZOG

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
WERNER HERZOG

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
WERNER HERZOG

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...
WERNER HERZOG

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars ...
WERNER HERZOG

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious...
WERNER HERZOG

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had m...
WERNER HERZOG

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next y...
WHITEY HERZOG

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has c...
WERNER HERZOG

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vid...
WERNER HERZOG

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a t...
WERNER HERZOG

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
WERNER HERZOG

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you strugg...
WHITEY HERZOG

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
WERNER HERZOG

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much ra...
WERNER HERZOG

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music...
WERNER HERZOG

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the en...
WERNER HERZOG

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
WERNER HERZOG

I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a drea...
WERNER HERZOG

Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.
ARTHUR HERZOG

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
ARTHUR HERZOG

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
ARTHUR HERZOG

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
ARTHUR HERZOG

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major r...
ARTHUR HERZOG

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two character...
ARTHUR HERZOG

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within ...
ARTHUR HERZOG

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
ARTHUR HERZOG

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness
ARTHUR HERZOG

Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 One of the catchwords...
ARTHUR HERZOG

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for ex...
WERNER HERZOG

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.
ISAAC HERZOG

Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.
ISAAC HERZOG

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a g...
WERNER HERZOG

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When...
WERNER HERZOG

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelli...
WERNER HERZOG

With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built th...
ISAAC HERZOG

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidit...
WERNER HERZOG

Demographic trends are working against the brewers.
BONNIE HERZOG

Demographic trends are working against the brewers,
BONNIE HERZOG

Coke needs to prove that it can string two successful years together.
BONNIE HERZOG

The concern was with $3 billion, the flood gates were open. This helps to alleviate some of that con...
BONNIE HERZOG

I'd rather have this thing filed sooner rather than later so we can deal with it.
BONNIE HERZOG

Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of ...
BONNIE HERZOG

We think North American trends are solid and expect Europe to be much improved in 2006.
BONNIE HERZOG

We continue to believe the probability is very low that either Philip Morris or Reynolds American bu...
BONNIE HERZOG

We would not be surprised if this battle leads to some form of another settlement which could result...
BONNIE HERZOG

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
WERNER HERZOG

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the th...
WERNER HERZOG

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and pr...
ISAAC HERZOG

Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, ...
WERNER HERZOG

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...
WERNER HERZOG

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra...
WERNER HERZOG

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the l...
CHAIM HERZOG

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon ...
RAYMOND HERZOG

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
WERNER HERZOG

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you w...
WHITEY HERZOG

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank yo...
WHITEY HERZOG

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there...
WERNER HERZOG

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
WERNER HERZOG

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.
ISAAC HERZOG

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
WERNER HERZOG

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offend...
WERNER HERZOG

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.
WERNER HERZOG

Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited goin...
ISAAC HERZOG

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
WHITEY HERZOG

The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human c...
HAL HERZOG

The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
WERNER HERZOG

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision...
WERNER HERZOG

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them...
HAL HERZOG

Gush Etzion must be part of Israel for eternity.
ISAAC HERZOG

Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, can...
WERNER HERZOG

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
WERNER HERZOG

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
WHITEY HERZOG

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm...
WERNER HERZOG

I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers....
WERNER HERZOG

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the s...
WERNER HERZOG

Strangely enough, I've always believed that my stories were mainstream stories; the films are narrat...
WERNER HERZOG

I can tell those apart who can milk a cow, I mean with their bare hands. Sometimes people can tell b...
WERNER HERZOG

Erik Nelson [Herzog's producer] understood that I would see something in this, that something about ...
WERNER HERZOG

I just hope it's a small one. I only travel light. It's got to fit in my hand-held luggage.
WERNER HERZOG

I love my movies as they are. I let them develop their own lives.
WERNER HERZOG

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If y...
WERNER HERZOG

Many of my films have not been easy work,
WERNER HERZOG

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not...
WERNER HERZOG

I'm old-fashioned; I'm a man of celluloid. I think it still has a depth and a precision that you do ...
WERNER HERZOG

Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unex...
WERNER HERZOG

We had some ranting about the meaning of nature, ... And Jewel is more defending Treadwell's positio...
WERNER HERZOG

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm goo...
WERNER HERZOG

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
WERNER HERZOG

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
WHITEY HERZOG

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
WHITEY HERZOG

Our trade contacts indicate Reynolds American has already developed a product and will enter the mar...
BONNIE HERZOG

I have never left my culture. It doesn't matter whether I film with Australian aborigines or in Anta...
WERNER HERZOG

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
WERNER HERZOG

I have my doubts about his attitude toward wild nature and that he did anything to help the bears, ....
WERNER HERZOG

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
WHITEY HERZOG

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
WHITEY HERZOG

ecstatic truth. I've always tried to strive for a much deeper truth in the images, in cinema, in sto...
WERNER HERZOG

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. A...
WHITEY HERZOG

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next y...
WHITEY HERZOG

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
WERNER HERZOG

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
WERNER HERZOG

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the...
ARTHUR HERZOG

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
ARTHUR HERZOG

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze,...
ISAAC HERZOG

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely...
WERNER HERZOG

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kil...
WERNER HERZOG

Comrades, we are going to try to cheer you up, and our sense of humor will help us in this endeavor,...
RUDOLPH HERZOG

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If y...
WERNER HERZOG

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
WERNER HERZOG

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of schol...
WERNER HERZOG

Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our ...
MAURICE HERZOG

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
WERNER HERZOG

The people surround the pitch, under the sky or under the floodlights and that it's it. It's really ...
JACQUES HERZOG

It's people only that you see, there's very little architecture that you see inside,
JACQUES HERZOG

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are...
JACQUES HERZOG

Our goal here was to give equal importance to visitors, nature and art,
JACQUES HERZOG

The need for environmental sanctions stems from the growth in building and development and the conse...
ISAAC HERZOG

In Israel there are numerous building and expansion projects in areas with landscapes and habitats w...
ISAAC HERZOG

We need to think of future generations, ... The need for 'green construction' in Israel is a serious...
ISAAC HERZOG

I look at Likud and I see a party in suicide,
ISAAC HERZOG

The education portfolio, after defense, is the portfolio with the biggest budget. It affects every f...
ISAAC HERZOG

Undoubtedly it's historic ... The feeling that the Vatican itself is leading the way to all of the b...
ISAAC HERZOG

The adrenaline is flowing and he's totally focused in convincing Israeli public opinion of his just ...
ISAAC HERZOG

We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an in...
ISAAC HERZOG

Now they are not focused only on Israel, but also on rebuilding South Africa, closing the gaps after...
ISAAC HERZOG

As advertising continues to evolve, so too must the strategies that companies use to reach their tar...
JEFFREY HERZOG

The mountains were there and so was I.
MAURICE HERZOG

I never argued against the position of the Chief Rabbinate on holy sites, including the Western Wall...
ISAAC HERZOG

I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a perso...
ISAAC HERZOG

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ...
SAUL BELLOW, HERZOG

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
DOUG LARSON

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
DOUG LARSON

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
DOUG LARSON

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing ...
DOUG LARSON

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
DOUG COLLINS

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically c...
DOUG LIMAN

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James...
DOUG LIMAN

The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game...
DOUG LIMAN

Ice cream brings people together.
DOUG DUCEY

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type...
DOUG COLLINS

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...
DOUG STANHOPE

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
DOUG LARSON

Money is good, love is wealth.
DOUG HORTON

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I ma...
DOUG LIMAN

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
DOUG MCLEOD

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
DOUG HORTON

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, l...
DOUG HORTON

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
DOUG HORTON

If food were free, why work?
DOUG HORTON

Death is the final wake-up call.
DOUG HORTON

To awake from death is to die in peace.
DOUG HORTON

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
DOUG HORTON

The stars up there at night are closer than you think.
DOUG DILLON

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
DOUG LARSON

Long-range planning works best in the short term
DOUG EVELYN

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
DOUG HORTON

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
DOUG HORTON

Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
DOUG KING

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
DOUG HORTON

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
DOUG HORTON

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
DOUG HORTON

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
DOUG HORTON

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a w...
DOUG VARGAS

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
DOUG HORTON

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
DOUG HORTON

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
DOUG HORTON

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
DOUG HORTON

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big ...
DOUG HORTON

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for ...
DOUG HORTON

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attenti...
DOUG HORTON

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
DOUG HORTON

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
DOUG HORTON

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang agains...
DOUG HORTON

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
DOUG HORTON

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
DOUG HORTON

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
DOUG HORTON

There is no bad in good.
DOUG HORTON

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
DOUG HORTON

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
DOUG HORTON

Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future.
DOUG FIREBAUGH

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
DOUG HORTON

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
DOUG HORTON

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
DOUG HORTON

Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUG HORTON

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
DOUG HORTON

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
DOUG HORTON

With all due respect to Jay and Dave and everybody out there, they're doing very similar kinds of shows in formats that are nearly as old as television. I do believe those traditional formats are growing tired, and younger viewers are growing tired of them.

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With all due respect to Jay and Dave and everybody out there, they're doing very similar kinds of shows in formats that are nearly as old as television. I do believe those traditional formats are growing tired, and younger viewers are growing tired of them.

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