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.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

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 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.

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 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 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.