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The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.
It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
People respond differently to the same image and put on what they want or hope or feel onto that image.
The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.
I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.
Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?
A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.
I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.
There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.
My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.
I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.
I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.
I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.
I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia.
Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.
We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.
Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.
This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.
Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it.
I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.
An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.
CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.
I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.
I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.
People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.
People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.
If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.
I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.
R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.
In 2004, I was the new President of Bravo. I had never run a commercial cable network before…we needed a hit.
Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.
I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die
As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too?
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.
I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.