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

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

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.

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.

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

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've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.