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"When I got to MTV in 1988 it was a wonderful period. Everything was booming so you could do all this stuff and there were no rules about what this operation should be like. You made it up as you went along. There was no end to what you could do. I heard an executive once, somebody told him that MTV was stupid and he said, 'Yes we are.' It was a ton of fun."

"I was listening to the radio driving on the 405. I hear a British guy being interviewed say, 'I'm going to take 16 people and put them on an island, and they have to work together and then every three days they vote somebody out, and at the end the people come back as the jury and one person gets a million dollars.' Right then I called my agent said, 'There's this new show called 'Survivor' and I've got to get in!'"

"I love doing this interview with you because there's a whole generation of young people who think that television started with 'I Love Lucy.'  They only see what was put on film.  And we, in New York, never had film.  It was all live. You did it once and when it was finished, it was gone."