I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

Hate is more interesting than love.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

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

I know that telling the story, there are certain events I want to skip, and certain events I want to hit. The time passing allows for - if you're really following people's lives, and this isn't a cartoon - someone gets pregnant, a child will be born, etc. You really don't want to be locked into "Every episode is a month later." The show is very intense to make. There's always going to be some downtime between seasons, and to me, it really helps to come back to the next season in the reality of that world, and have almost as much time passed in their lives as has passed in yours.