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.

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.

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.

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

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.