I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.