As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at 1950s, 1960s American sitcoms, the characters don't live any place in particular, religion is never discussed, politics is never discussed, you never really know what anyone's job is; nothing that could make these people seem different from you is ever discussed.