You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
Bonnie Hammer
If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I'm going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it.
The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.
The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.
Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.
It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.
The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.
My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.
It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.
Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.
Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.
Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.
'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.
The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.
I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.
There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.
My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.
I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.
'Stargate SG-1' is one of Sci Fi's sure-fire hits. It's got one of the best ensemble casts on television and one of the best production teams as well.
E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.
Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.
I bobbed and weaved through my career. And in hindsight, though I'd like to say it was a plan - it was not - the bobbing and the weaving gave me a broad base from which to become an executive who could say, 'OK, I've done this, and I've done this, and I've done this.' And nobody could BS me, because I'd done most of it.
A black actor is perfect for 'Kojak.'
The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.
When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.
This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.
My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.
I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.
I'm a chick. I like shopping.
Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.
In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'
As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success.
The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.
Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than anyone expects.
Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak out against the discrimination and prejudice they faced.
My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
To put it bluntly, I feel relevant and valuable, and I am struggling to understand why, when women reach age 65, they encounter an invisible barrier of perception that says it's time to walk away. Shouldn't we have a choice in the matter? Shouldn't our experience and energy be worth more?
For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.
Channel brand is so key.
I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman.
When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.
Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.
Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we're building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.
My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.
