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.

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.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

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.

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.

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