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

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.

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 was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

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.

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