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.

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 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.

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

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

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

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