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.

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 get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

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

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

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

It's show business. No show, no business.