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 learn more when things go wrong.

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.

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.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

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