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.

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

My court skills may have atrophied.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.