I always think it's better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas - and dismiss a lot of ideas - before figuring out where to land. It's a good way to care for your audience, too. If you spend hours and hours and days and weeks coming up with the ending, then there's a chance the fans won't figure it out on their own.

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 have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

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.

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

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.