Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

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.

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

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.

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.