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

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

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.

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

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.

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.