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.

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

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.

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

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

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.