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.

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

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

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.

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

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