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

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

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

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

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

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

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