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A director has to be on the set when the crew is called and is the last one to leave at night. I'm not saying it's not possible, but that's partly why we're not seeing more women.

~Dana Walden

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When Calista Flockhart read for 'Ally McBeal', I saw this perfect chemistry between the words on the page and the person who would embody that character.

~Dana Walden

Topics: Ally Between Character Chemistry Embody Page Perfect Person Read Saw Who Words Would

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When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.

~Dana Walden

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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.

~Dana Walden

Topics: Ability Apologize Contrition Cop Following Leaders Make Mistake Mistakes Move Move On Powerful Recover Them Time

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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.

~Dana Walden

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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.

~Dana Walden

Topics: Because Businesses Company Dead Decided Developed Development Drama Dramas Efficient Few Financially Fox Had More Much Our Process Produce Simple Started Than Tolerable Very Viable Were Working Year

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You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.

~Dana Walden

Topics: Beautiful Bit Broad Country Crazy Cry Develop Emotion Emotional Escape Extreme Good Little Little Bit Lives Needs One Thing Others People Projects Pushing Range Real Say Seeming Seen Should Thing Us Want Where Without Would You

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'American Idol' was an extremely expensive show.

~Dana Walden

Topics: American American Idol Expensive Extremely Idol Show

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: Unknown

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