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

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.

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 hardly see myself as a futurist.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.