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

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.

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.

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.

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

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

I never thought of myself as a writer.