When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

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."