If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

You learn more when things go wrong.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists. [...] The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.