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

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

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.

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

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

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.

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