Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else; or less.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.