Robert Thompson Quotes on Life (3 Quotes)

From the outside you look at these contestants and think 'get a life,' but within certain subcultures and we're all in one that looks strange to the outside if you're a part of that rabid fan community, this is one of the ways you express it and rise to the top of that subculture.

It's really an ingenious idea. One of the most desirable things in American life is a job on television. Everybody can understand the appeal of that more so than the appeal of a million dollars. Somebody wins a million bucks on Survivor, that doesn't mean anything to viewers. Here you've got a situation where somebody really does have a career launch.

There's a history in American culture about animals. You have sincere animals such as Rin Tin Tin and Lassie who are essentially heroic. And you've also got your wise-cracking animals. ... You turn an animal into something that becomes a commentary on the silliness of human life.