The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

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.

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

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

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.

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.