I hardly see myself as a futurist.

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.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

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.

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

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.