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I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

- Dana Walden
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In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.

We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling - fears, joys, terror. That's what art is about, and we don't want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.

Our news is Fox News. It's a cable channel and has nothing to do, frankly, with the entertainment area of the company. It's the model of how this company was launched, and there are a lot of independent stations and Fox O&Os who have hugely successful news that our programming is the lead-in for.

It's no longer permissible to have sexist comments, but growing up in this industry, I spent time in many other organizations where it was just commonplace for men to talk about how a woman looks or give a woman a little bit of a harder time in a meeting and then say, 'I'm just joking - it's because I care about you.'

To be a great creator, you have to be vulnerable. You're creating characters that have a little bit of yourself in them... And you want to know it's a safe environment for that.

As a woman in this organization, I can say that I don't ever feel that I was discriminated against or prevented from opportunities.

The development process is not that simple... When I started working at Fox in '92, the company had decided that dramas were dead: they weren't viable businesses and because newsmagazines were so efficient to produce and financially so much more tolerable than a drama. So that year, our company developed very few dramas.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

What differentiates leaders is the ability to recover following a mistake. I make mistakes all the time, but I cop to them, apologize, and move on. Contrition is powerful.

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I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.