That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of movies and international demands that you need to get a much bigger audience. TV is more like independent film was. The forms of adult drama and certain kinds of sophisticated comedy, there's no room for them in the tentpole movie universe.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.