Bonnie Hammer

We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.

We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

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

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.

'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.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

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.

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.

Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.

Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

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

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.

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.

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.

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

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 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've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.

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

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

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.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

I will never not take anyone's phone call.

I'm a chick. I like shopping.

Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.

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

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

You can't trademark the word 'sci-fi.'

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

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.

The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.

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.

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

A black actor is perfect for 'Kojak.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success.

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.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

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.

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.