I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make ….

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and r….

I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them..

I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and e….

I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime time in the mai….

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and….

A "showrunner" as a position is a relatively new thing. It used to be the executive producer. That's not true anymore. Now it's evolved into this mod….

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths..

People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life..

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support..

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth..

I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these k….

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!.

I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to th….

The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world..

I think it's satisfying for people to feel that that relationship is reciprocal in some way. The truth is, you do have a relationship with your fans,….

I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing..

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experienc….

You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the same time, you're conscious of, "Thi….

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is..

I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a double….