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

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

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.

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 do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

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