Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.