Quotes from Bonnie Hammer

I didn't really have a road map ever.

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

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

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

I will never not take anyone's phone call.

I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.

Channel brand is so key.

I'm a chick. I like shopping.

Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.

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 read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

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

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

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.

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.

Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak out against the discrimination and prejudice they faced.

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.

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

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

'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.

With 'Battlestar Galactica,' we had such resistance from the fan base to changing it. The upshot was, we ultimately won them over.