You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

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.

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

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.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

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

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.