People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

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

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

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.

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

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.