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.

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

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

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.

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.

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