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've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

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.

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

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

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.