Occupation: Television Writer Birth: August 29, 1962
Glee is only one example - there are a lot of shows, adult shows online. I just don't understand why we've decided that we want to throw everything w….
Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been involved in unions most of my life….
Television viewership has been declining for a number of years. The internet has been blamed. Everything has been blamed. Except for what I think the….
Everyone's opinion is of equal value, which is bizarre to me. It's so hard to get anybody cast because you'll be on the phone with 15 people, and if ….
In some ways I think it [the strike] was important. I'm not sure that "worth it" is the right term, but it was important. A lot of people lost a lot ….
You get notes from two studios and a network instead of a studio and a network. Although we early on forced them all to do their notes together. I ma….
I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone who is too afraid of saying what I feel. I….
What gets made that's considered for men - it's really just T&A stuff. It's not stuff than any guy I know really wants to watch, you know, the stuff ….
Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. Peo….
If you don't like me, you don't like me. You can call me anytime; I'll have an opinion on just about anything. I will also tell you if I shouldn't ha….
It was always about the future of writers, and about the way writers are treated in the future, and I think that was really hurtful to a lot of peopl….
We don't have a whole lot of people living hand-to-mouth in the Writers Guild, we get paid really well, and a lot of the things we fought for, in my ….
One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people that it was a choice between his writing staf….
I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at us differentl….
I think it works if there's something online that is not in the show, or in a newspaper, if there's some added value to it - reading a newspaper on l….
Macho in a different sense, the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn't really exist right now. I really don't want it to seem that I….
Most of the network television audience now is primarily women, but I think that's because the shows are developed to appeal to women. I don't know t….
I also think one of the things that's really hurting us is political activism of any stripe. Michael Jordan had it exactly right, he was my idol - wh….
What's missing from the online experience is community. Married couples are still going to need something to do on Tuesday nights, right? And it's no….
I eternally fight internal battles about developing things that only appeal to the East Coast and the West Coast. For years I've been trying to do a ….