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 consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

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

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.

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.