Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctu….

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're go….

Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writ….

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network..

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as ….

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..

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

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

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 g….

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. An….

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to..

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going t….

There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have to treat each ….

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 likab….

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the chea….

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

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..

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network..

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

When you start a TV show, you're not necessarily thinking, "Are we setting up what we need for season seven?" You're just trying to stay on the air, ….

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