Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.

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.

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.

'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.

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

With 'Battlestar Galactica,' we had such resistance from the fan base to changing it. The upshot was, we ultimately won them over.

Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.

From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my favorite books ever.

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.

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.

A black actor is perfect for 'Kojak.'

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

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.

The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.

I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.

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.

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.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

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.

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.

Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

I'm a chick. I like shopping.

I will never not take anyone's phone call.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.