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.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

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

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

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

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

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.