I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

Are we slaves of our pasts? or can we rise above it?

People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.