I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.

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

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

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