Mark Burnett Quotes

• I’m not at all overextended… I’m very, very hands-on.

  Mark Burnett

• I very much like Kenya. It’s hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There’s more rhinos than you’ll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.

  Mark Burnett

• I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That’s where my heart lies.

  Mark Burnett

• I look at decisions like – it’s like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he’s being chased. There’s uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he’s going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

  Mark Burnett

• I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don’t care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That’s what makes America the country it is.

  Mark Burnett

• I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

  Mark Burnett

• I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you’ll be doing multiple things. You’ll be ‘IMing’ while you’re watching a show and checking the news.

  Mark Burnett

• I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what’s so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

  Mark Burnett

• I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

  Mark Burnett

• How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they’ve got that great business idea.

  Mark Burnett

• Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and ‘Survivor’ clearly remains a hit series.

  Mark Burnett

• ‘Content is King,’ and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

  Mark Burnett

• America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

  Mark Burnett

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Birth:	17th July, 1960
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Producer

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Today's Anniversary - 22nd November

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• 1934 - Nicolas Hardy Walter
• 1940 - Terry Gilliam
• 1969 - Marjane Satrapi
• 1898 - Wiley Post
• 1930 - Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall

Deaths

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• 1992 - Sterling Price Holloway Jr.
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