Kurt Loder

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.