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.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

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.

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