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In my day everything wasn't so PC.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
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I put the heart attack down to 66 cigarettes a day.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Attack
Cigarettes
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Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Adam
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It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Relationship
Two
Screw
Takes
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There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Race
Shows
Beautifully
No Question
Produced
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Nicki Minaj I think is one of the best judges I've ever worked with.
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Best Think Ever
Judges
Nicki Minaj
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Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
American Idol
Genre
Life Truth Way
Idol
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I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.
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Accustomed
British
Boo
Factor
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And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.
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Dad
Mom
Protective
Stage
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'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
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American Idol
Epic
Home Always Me
Home Me Always
Idol
Proportions
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'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Enjoyed
Hobbit
Tolkien
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There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Host
Best Business Believe
Idol
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The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.
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Logic
Program
Voting
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Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Heart
Lost
Missing
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I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
London
Something New
Godfather
New Always Find
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I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.
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Ballet
Contemporary
Swedish
Tap
Trained
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The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Best Dance Crew' and 'Dancing With The Stars.'
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Crew
Dancing With The Stars
Stars
Programs
Suddenly
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I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Beholden
Believed
Franchise
Idol
Minute
Simon
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Everybody I've ever seen live sings out of tune, even the greatest singers in the world. And of course if you make a single nowadays, they'll autotune it anyway.
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Singers
Anyway
Nowadays
Tune
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I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Art
American Idol
Believe
Drama
Rap
Art Form
Fits
Idol
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With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Entity
Life Experience
Sensuality
Sexuality
Life Experience Soul
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Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.
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Alive
Great Things
Things Happen
Touch
Jon
Director
Longer
Met
Producer
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This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!
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Attack
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Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Blind
Britain
Faces
Forgotten
Instance
New Faces
Opportunity Knocks
Talent
Date
Gong
Whilst
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That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.
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Idols
People
Television
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I don't go into my dentist and say, 'Are you gay?' I don't say to contestants on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'Are you gay?' What does it got to do with me? What does it got to do with anybody?
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Contestants
Dentist
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I think rap in the street when they have rap competitions is thrilling because these kids are making it up and having a go at each other. They've got something to say. This is about getting their frustrations out.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Thrilling
Competitions
Frustrations
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I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Died
Indigestion
Realising
Shouting
Two Weeks
Attack
Nearly
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Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Ankles
Ballgame
Bent
Legs
Afford
Anything Else
Tap
Dancers
Jumps
Loose
Trained
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We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Angst
Contemporary
Reaching
Stretching
Teenage
Anything Else
Camera
Dancers
Styles
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If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Artist
Connections
Consistently
Curtains
Fascinating
Lifetime
Opening
People
Pulling
Aspiring
Discovered
Opening Act
Right People
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In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Broken
Changed
Destination
Destroyed
Fame
Forever
Lifetime
May
Shattered
Stardom
Achieved
Seen
Egos
Talented
Discovered
Fame And Fortune
Hearts
Incredibly
Individuals
Well
Simultaneously
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Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Inspirational
Journey
American Idol
Eye
Heart
Pop Culture
Seven
Original
Dynamic
Executive
Executive Producer
Fuller
Idol
Incredibly
Producer
Opened
Remained
Simon
Untapped
Young People
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So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and that is their base. And then they choose to extemporize on that and go into a contemporary world.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Ballet
Contemporary
Jazz
Throwing
World People Feel
Report
Base
World People True
Classical
Contemporary World
Dancers
So Many People
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