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.

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.

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.

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

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