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"Tell me the story of the miniseries. Not roots, but in general, there was a time when there were no miniseries. >> This is true. That time was in the late 60s, early 70s. Yeah, I think it's probably N..."

"While we were doing Rich Man, Poor Man, Alex Haley came to my office with David Walper, a major producer at the time, and told me that he was in the middle of writing this book called Roots. And he ha..."

"Tell me the story of the movie of the week. >> [sighs] >> Well, I'm 24, 20, a little over 24, I think. And I had been responsible at ABC for buying movies from major studios to show on the networks. A..."

"Again I think they wanted to stay away from it. And so I got to build a little movie studio inside this network from the scratch up. I mean it was the seinal experience of learning how to manage becau..."

"No, they made 20. >> Yeah, it's a huge undertaking. >> Yeah, it was. It was total fun. There's a wonderful thing about I think people presuming you're going to fail is that they leave you alone. >> Ye..."

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"Well, ABC was the hip shooter network because it was the third network. It was the youngest network since they commandeered the entire viewing population. CBS and NBC had been founded in radio days 25..."

"Tell me about that decision to leave. >> It wasn't a decision. [laughter] I didn't really want to go. As crazy it is. >> What happened >> now? There was nobody at that time from television who was all..."

">> Unbelievable. >> And I was the first person from television that dared to come into the movie business. >> How was the reception in the industry to this outsider? >> Not kindly. And of course, for ..."

"And at the time, most of the movie business was dominated by packages where agents would put together writer, director, actors in a package and sell them to the quote the highest bidder, whatever. And..."

"And I mean, Paramount, we were the last ranked company. And that was a miserable time. I went to the company that owned the man who'd hired me and I said, "You know, you've had taken this great leap o..."

"How did Saturday Night Fever come about? >> It was a story in New York magazine. I just thought this is first of all was a lovely little short story and we wrote the script and Robert Stigwood he was ..."

"Tell me about the decision to put John Travolta in. I know he was big on television, but up until that point, no one had made that crossover from TV to the big screen. >> No, no, he was definitely the..."

"Do you think you just didn't have the baggage of the old way of doing things gave you freedom to do things other people wouldn't do? >> Don't you think that's always true? People think you're going to..."

"Let's talk about instincts a little bit. When you hear an idea and you know it's a good idea, what's the feeling of good idea versus bad idea? >> Well, there is a thing called pure instinct. If you're..."

"And out of that you hear kind of people's passion and that really helps your instincts to get kind of soldered into something that you can then activate. You can then say yes let's go in that directio..."

"Is it as simple as the best debater in the room, their ideas win, or might the best idea come from someone who doesn't explain it so well, but you can hear through that? >> Oh, yeah. You're totally ri..."

"And I don't think any of this comes from deep brain work. Smarter doesn't get you there. I just think that that's a very good creative process. >> Yeah. And as you say, it's not an intellectual proces..."

"I'll tell you where it is most to me in advertising. You know, I've always thought that the best advertising comes out of denial. >> Explain. >> Well, when you're on anything that you want to market, ..."

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"In the book, you talk about your parents being handsoff. Would you say that that made you who you are? Well, yeah, hands off is an interesting. I never thought of it that way. Yeah, they were they kin..."

"that and the anvil of my at the time determined deviant sexuality, all that stuff. If you survive it, then it contributes somehow someway, some some which way for sure. >> You talked about your mom sa..."

"So I I had to not had to cuz I didn't have to do anything. >> Yeah. >> But when that happened, I had to depend on myself. It kind of excluded me from humanity. >> Yeah. >> To a degree. But like other ..."

"I had one huge worry. >> The worry that my sexuality would be revealed. When you have one giant worry, other worries are prosaic. And so I could take risks that didn't they weren't risky to me because..."

"Do you think of yourself as a gambler? No, actually I'm a really rotten gambler. It It's so bizarre. I really can't figure it out because I mean I am a gambler to the extent that I don't see risk in c..."

"I understand what technological breakthrough has most impacted your life. Clearly digital and clearly for me I was really lucky enough and I really do believe you're just it just depends upon where yo..."

"But screens to me were at that time either television screens or big movie screens. I had only known that use those that stuff for telling stories. That's what those things are. They're passive enviro..."

"That was a moment and I was lucky enough again pure luck I had gotten some fluency in my fingertips for understanding interactivity. So when the internet came along, I was ready and out of it, you kno..."

"I came to Fox and then got this bad guy without going into boring detail about him got him out of the company got Rupert Murdoch into it and a few months after that I had always wanted to start a four..."

"Let's talk about Fox the Network a little bit because I don't think anyone was thinking there was ever going to be a fourth network. I don't think that was in the air at all. As I've said, I [snorts] ..."

"There were independent stations that had no viewing, but there were there were very few strong affiliated television stations with strong enough signal to support a fourth network. No one thought that..."

"They used to have their own personalities, but by then they all were kind of uniform programming of the same stuff. And I thought an alternative would be good. And we found our voice with a show calle..."

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"When did your love of sailing begin? >> Oh god, you know, not that early. No, I would say somewhere in my late 20s, I started to like boats. And then the thing is, I think after you get your first boa..."

"I've always been drawn to water, and if water is not near me or around me, I'm uncomfortable. I don't know what I would have happened to me if I were in the Midwest too long. >> What's it like living ..."

"Oh my god. [sighs] There's no way to start and end that. I mean other than end it and start it which is characteristically she is an earth mother. Her whole sensibility her whole being is infolding ot..."

"But anyway, the luck of that we found each other and she and our family. I mean, it it has, as I said earlier, when very early I decided I couldn't trust anyone. I trust her and she's made me trust ev..."

"And I at the end of it, I thought, "Wow, God, that was great." I sent it to Scott Ruden, a friend of mine who's a best creative force I know. Said, "Just listen to an hour of I just want to He calls m..."

"So, we got somebody we both knew, great young Brit director, come over and on my boat, which is where I am now, we spent 15 hours and re-recorded it and it came out authentic. I think >> it's beautifu..."

"Through the process of working on the book, did you learn anything about yourself? >> Yes, for sure. It's just because one of the things that is true for me, it's certainly true I think for a lot of o..."

"Well, yeah, hands off is an interesting. I never thought of it that way. Yeah, they were they kind of they weren't absent, but they weren't involved in the conduct of their child. Look, I actually thi..."

"Which certainly was, you know, garden variety, it wasn't violent or anything particularly strange. It was just absent. that and the anvil of my at the time determined deviant sexuality, all that stuff..."

"You talked about your mom saying she was going to pick you up, not picking you up, you losing trust for her, and if you lost trust for her, you lost trust for everyone. How would you say that lack of ..."

">> Wow. >> And I saw it and I thought, first of all, to make it and for me to believe as I'm looking at this, oh, how sad and sweet that they took this last picture of Redford. And it just disturbed t..."

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