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.

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

A "showrunner" as a position is a relatively new thing. It used to be the executive producer. That's not true anymore. Now it's evolved into this model where people look to showrunners and say, that guy is that show. It's just become a lot more interesting to know the showrunner and to get a sense of that person.

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.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

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

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!