I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a double-reverse way is actually totally right. I don't really like where there's a story and you lay a few jokes on top of it.

I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.

The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.