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.

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.

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

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.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

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 always think it's better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas - and dismiss a lot of ideas - before figuring out where to land. It's a good way to care for your audience, too. If you spend hours and hours and days and weeks coming up with the ending, then there's a chance the fans won't figure it out on their own.