 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. |
| The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. |
| 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. |
| The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there. |
| There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric. |
| I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people. |
| 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. |
| I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. |
| I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive. |
| 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. |
