If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.
It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.
When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.
I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.
A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.
I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."