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

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

It's impossible for me, without getting a big wide shot of Manhattan, to convince people that it's another day. But if we go to a commercial and we come up and people are in different clothes, you know it's another day.

Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple drafts, and I work with the writers on all these things. And I'm extremely involved in the writing process.

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

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.