The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

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

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.'

Anything you do to lose weight should be as easy as it can possibly be and still deliver results.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.