We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

It's easier to solve the problem more quickly with directors than with writers.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.