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.
From Shawn Ryan
Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.
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 have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.
I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.
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 don't want my writing to be recognized.
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 going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.
I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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 likable.
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