In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

I've always been a shy person.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'