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.

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

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

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

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.'

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.'