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.

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.

There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.

E! has the possibility of growing exponentially, and yes, I believe it could be a top 10 network.

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.

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

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 didn't really have a road map ever.

I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

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.

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.

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.

You can't trademark the word 'sci-fi.'

Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

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

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

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.

I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.

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.

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.