Words matter. These are the best Bonnie Hammer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Some mentors are more challenging than others.
I didn’t really have a road map ever.
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.
I think it’s the nervousness and the worry that it won’t last forever that keeps us working so hard.
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.
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.
‘Glory’ pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.
When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn’t, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn’t like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.
The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.
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.
I think reading a room – reading the personalities, reading body language – is kind of a lost art.
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.
‘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.
Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than anyone expects.
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.
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.
I wouldn’t be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.
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 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.
We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.
E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.
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.
You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
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.
The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure – all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
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.
With ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ we had such resistance from the fan base to changing it. The upshot was, we ultimately won them over.
I will never not take anyone’s phone call.
You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you’re a storyteller, too.
In the American office lexicon, ‘aging’ – and its close cousin ‘old’ – are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as ‘tired’ and ‘out of touch,’ aging men get to be ‘distinguished’ and ‘seasoned.’
My dream isn’t running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.
The one thing that makes me nuts is if there’s a problem or something that I don’t know about.
I’ve not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.
Channel brand is so key.
There’s an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it’s fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.
My dream would be producing, maybe directing – definitely not writing – one feature film.
Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.
Sci-fi is speculative fiction. ‘Field of Dreams’ is sci-fi.
Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.
A black actor is perfect for ‘Kojak.’
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.
I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.
For me, turning 65 doesn’t include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.
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.
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.
Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we’re building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.
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.
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.’
I’ve been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.
My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called ‘Infinity Factory’ in 1976.
Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.
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’m a Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised, Manhattan-honed New York gal who entered college with only the vaguest ideas about what was coming next.
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.
Just because something is working today doesn’t mean it will work forever.
