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

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.

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

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.

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.

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