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

I never thought of myself as a writer.

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

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 think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

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

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.