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.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

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.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

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

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