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"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information."
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"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."

"There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie."

"The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks."

"TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please."

"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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