It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

There are good characters and bad characters.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.