The thing is, when you put a button in someone’s hand and give them the power of yes or no is a shorter word. People just say no.
ADRIAN PASDARThe thing is, when you put a button in someone’s hand and give them the power of yes or no is a shorter word. People just say no.
ADRIAN PASDARIf you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you’re gonna watch, it’s scary.
ADRIAN PASDARAnd then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want.
ADRIAN PASDARPeople want a certain amount of each. It’s just widening the market a little bit.
ADRIAN PASDARYou have to be malleable to what’s going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.
ADRIAN PASDARYou’re reducing a medium that’s meant to be seen on your 65-inch plasma screen at home for your 4-inch monitor on the train.
ADRIAN PASDAROn a plane or on a train, or whatever, you see people with their headphones and they’re looking at their iPhone or their Galaxy.
ADRIAN PASDARBut there are people who are way better at it than I am.
ADRIAN PASDARPeople are ready to do either, and the content has to work on both.
ADRIAN PASDARThis cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.
ADRIAN PASDARThe involvement of people at home is just broadening things.
ADRIAN PASDARI don’t consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things.
ADRIAN PASDARWhat people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.
ADRIAN PASDARI think people ultimately realize that, but not when they’re in the spotlight.
ADRIAN PASDARYou really have to bring your game and know what you want to do.
ADRIAN PASDARYou do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.
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