I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.

You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.