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.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

'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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.