I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.