The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.