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

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

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.

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

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