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

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

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 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 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.

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.