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 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.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

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

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 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.

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.