Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.