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.

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.

Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren't afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

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

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.