If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether a program will work or not, and waiting for the reviews or seeing what the audience figures are.

My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.