It's show business. No show, no business.

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.