My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and our friend Dean Lorey, who was on the show originally - and we were working on a movie. There would be some fan fiction things that would scoop us. It happened a couple times, where I thought, "Well, we can't do that!"

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

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

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

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.