We figured the interesting question for them is, "Where has the family been since 2006, since the last time we saw them?" So, part of the time, we had to spend answering that question. Then, inevitably, it goes up to a point of crisis, in everyone's show. There was just no getting around that it was about 2006-2012.

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

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

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

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

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.