There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

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

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

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.