"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."

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"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."

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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

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"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."

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"And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows."

Care

"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."

Time

"I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible."

Want

"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."

Woman

"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."

Change

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

Soul

"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."

Change

"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"

History

"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."

Work

"Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'"

Success