I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

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.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

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