There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

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.

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

I will tell you that we're all human beings, and we all care about what people think of us. But in general, their outlook is, "We're not looking at opening night numbers. We're not looking at opening night box office. We want this to be part of the reason you come to our service."

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.