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

When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

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.

I would vote for a Mormon.

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.

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.