I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have to treat each episode like an hour of TV, and think that maybe this will be the only episode that anyone will ever watch. You want to have some sort of beginning, middle, and end to the episode, even if you have storylines that are carrying over. You still want it to feel like a cohesive hour of entertainment. And you can't think about both at the same time.

TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.