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

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.

TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.

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

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.

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.

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