If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.'

It's show business. No show, no business.