In an industry that is accustomed to a daily diet of ratings, it becomes a little traumatic for everyone when you don't get them on time,

I am hungry for ratings, because it's a job review, a daily job review. But I try not to be a slave to them.

I despair of the term 'clean eating'...it necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad.

The average regular viewer watches about half the episodes of series, but with serialized dramas, it can be as high as 70%. When you get one that's successful, you're going to get people there every week.

If [cable networks] really believe that men aged 18 to 34 watching cartoons at 1 in the morning are a primary audience, I think they're wrong,

There is nothing in that mix that will devalue the value of network television. In fact, I think it will be exactly the opposite.