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

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.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

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.

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

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.

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.