A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.
People simply don't make eye contact anymore.
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've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.
I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.