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

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.

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.

If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea about history. And one of the things I like about Game of Thrones, for example, is just the grit and the authenticity.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

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.