Quotes from Nina Tassler

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

In 1963, my parents took over a camp business from my grandparents. They turned it into a liberal, progressive, a co-educational, interracial camp for kids from all over the world, all over the country. And it was a very important cause for both of my parents.

Without the nontraditional methods we used to promote 'Jericho'... we wouldn't have been able to get the traction we did.

It's important to me to reach deep into the community and promote Latino artists.

I'm a feminist.

I'm a voracious reader. What that does is keep your mind fresh and active and hearing different voices and different styles. TV can be derivative, and if you just watch TV, you're not widening the circle.

Failure is a fundamental factor of success.

I think the best voices, the most creative voices, and the best content always wins.

There's always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn't work.

'Scorpion' has so much humor and so much heart and a great deal of action.

Accepting fear head-on is freeing.

'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

Tom Selleck is a big draw.

As you continue to work on a show, if I still feel inspired, and I feel they are making exciting choices, then our enthusiasm remains. This is not a perfect science. It's an evolutionary process.

Nothing runs forever. How you handle it, the most important thing is how you respect your audience, how you respect your cast, and being incredibly sensitive to how you wrap up any show when it ends a successful run.

'Without a Trace' analyzes criminal behavior in the special context of a disappearance. We consider it a suspense thriller.

My mother was not without her flaws. She did have a lot of flaws, but she revealed her strength and her flaws equally, and I think that's really important. I was very much influenced by that.

We're committed to delivering our viewers and advertisers year-round programming with a wide variety of storytelling.

Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that.

I was always a big fan of 'Quincy,' and I loved the idea of puzzle solving.

I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama.

'Zoo' further demonstrates our commitment to high-quality, year-round programming and to high-concept series that play to summer audiences in the U.S. as well as on a global scale.