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 want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

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.

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.

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

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