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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.

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Crime is a constantly renewable resource. Every day people continue to kill each other in bizarre and unfathomable ways. Even if murder goes down by double digits, there are still thousands of people killed in this country every year and killers who warrant prosecution.

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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

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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

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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.

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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.

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The great strikes of the '50s and '60s were bloody and awful, but at that point there were only three networks. Everyone came back to work.

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TV is not about ideas. It's about execution. And writing and casting. That's why most of TV drama's biggest stars have been character actors, not romantic leads. Peter Falk. Telly Savalas. Angela Lansbury. They can inhabit a role for years, and that's the TV challenge. I like to say a successful movie lasts 110 minutes. A successful TV series lasts 110 hours.

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When this strike is over, there will be fewer jobs. The people who were unemployed prior to the strike aren't going to be the first ones back to work.

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

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It's multiple storylines, and it's character-driven, which is the exact opposite of what the branded shows are.

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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.

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I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

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I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

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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.

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I'm certainly not gonna say that there should never be another show with Law Order in the title.

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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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I'm thrilled that we are continuing to do what this remarkable team has done so successfully for the past 16 years--create episodes that excite, educate, disturb and sometimes, even infuriate our audiences.

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

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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 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.

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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.

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T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you don't like what you're watching it can be a very painful process.

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I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

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I was running Miami Vice, but it wasn't my show so I got to learn an enormous amount. You were basically getting trained to have your own show.

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