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

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

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.'

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

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.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.