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

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.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.