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

It's show business. No show, no business.

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

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.

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.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

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

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

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

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.

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

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

SM Seaside City Cebu: soon to be the Philippines' Largest Mall and the 4th Largest in the World

Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my #1 inspiration.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.