Oftentimes, when a movie turns into a series, you never retain the creative auspices. You buy the idea, you buy the franchise, and then you bring in a whole new creative team and copy the tone or sensibility.
I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.
There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre.
Some mentors are more challenging than others.
'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.
The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.
Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.
You can't trademark the word 'sci-fi.'
I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.
E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.
I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.
I didn't really have a road map ever.
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.
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.
E! has the possibility of growing exponentially, and yes, I believe it could be a top 10 network.
There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.
Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.
I'm a Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised, Manhattan-honed New York gal who entered college with only the vaguest ideas about what was coming next.
My Hollywood is a place where anything can happen, where dreams can become reality, and reality often morphs into fiction. It's a place where people's day jobs create magic.
We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.
