Brian Thompson quotes from Frontline

Brian Thompson

Put Ray Martin up against a celebrity and it rates. God knows why, maybe opposites attract.

Brian, we're still struggling to find a psychologist specialising in siege-related traumas.

Brian

Well, we need someone.

Well, we have got a psychology, uh, student...

Brian

Nah.

Well, he's mature age. He's got a beard.

Brian

Alright. We'll slap him up in front of a bookcase.

Mike

Don't underestimate our viewers Brian.

Brian

I've built a career on it, mate.

Brian

Great. We get a thirteen-year-old, wire him up with a camera and get someone to sell him smokes.

Emma

That's entrapment.

Brian

No, it's current affairs.

Brian

Our audience simply doesn’t have the concentration span.

Mike

[plays distractedly with a piece of stationary]

Brian

Mike?

Mike

[looking up] Sorry.

Brian

We've got three minutes to do a story. Five if it involves nudity.

Brian

[on the Logie Awards] That's the trouble with these shows. You spend all night trying to remember everybody’s name.

Marty

Simple solution – you call everyone "mate". [Everybody laughs and agrees.] Everyone does it, can't remember your name, see ya – maaaaate.