In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

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.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

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

You learn more when things go wrong.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.