Bonnie Hammer Quotations

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

was to integrate the company, so all the creative juices and goals were the same.

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Next year we don't have the Olympics, so we'll be going straight through first quarter. But it's a puzzle, and you really have to take a look at what makes sense for the show, build up your audience, keep them, but not throw in repeat episodes and then hope they're going to come back or remember that after three repeat episodes there will be a brand-new episode.

We don't want to burn the series out. We want to make sure that (the producers) don't come to us with an episode that's a little soft because we're going and doing so many episodes one after the other. We want every one to be great.

We'd all been talking about how we could make the channel more accessible,

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

There were a lot of negative perceptions of both the genre and who actually watched it, that it's for geeks, it's all male and it's for 12-year-olds. So we had to embrace a lot of what we heard and then try to figure out how to change that.

Theatrical' keeps coming back to me, ... Something well done, well written, fun, not depressing, not dark, something that leaves people walking out feeling good -- some sort of inspirational but not religious feel to it.

In Sir Sean, AFI has found a perfect honoree for its Life Achievement Award. A celebration of his outstanding work guarantees a tribute as entertaining as it is deserved.

In Sir Sean, AFI has found a perfect honoree for its Life Achievement Award, ... A celebration of his outstanding work guarantees a tribute as entertaining as it is deserved.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger, ... Loved it from the literary point of view. But if somebody came to me five years ago and said to me that I'd be doing this, I'd say, 'You're crazy.'