It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

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

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.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.