Even on the old show, we would maybe not all be in the scene. Sometimes there would be a penthouse scene and everyone would get together. But, even in that context, it would be because somebody was missing.

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody was watching it. Now that people have started watching it, they get ahead of us. We've all started really guarding the material, just to make it fun for the audience.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.