I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

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

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

When you start a TV show, you're not necessarily thinking, "Are we setting up what we need for season seven?" You're just trying to stay on the air, and you try to learn your job as you go, and do what you can.

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.